IN THE SWIM. IN THE SWIM _A Story of Currents and Under-Currents in Gayest New York._ By Richard Henry Savage [Decoration] Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, Publishers. Copyright, 1898, by Richard Henry Savage. All Rights Reserved. CONTENTS. BOOK I. A RISING STAR. Chapter. Pages I—“Young Lochinvar has Come out of the West,” 5–23 II—The Drift of a Day in New York City, 24–43 III—A Frank Disclosure, 44–67 IV—“Wyman and Vreeland” Swing the Street, 68–88 V—Toward the Zenith, 89–110 BOOK II. WITH THE CURRENT. VI—In the “Elmleaf” Bachelor Apartments, 111–131 VII—“Plunger” Vreeland’s Gay Life, “Under the Rose,” 132–151 VIII—Miss Romaine Garland, Stenographer, 152–170 IX—Senator Alynton’s Colleague, 171–188 X—An Interview at Lakemere. Some Ingenious Mechanism. “Whose Picture is That?” 189–209 BOOK III. ON A LEE SHORE. XI—Miss Marble’s Waterloo! A Lost Lamb! Her Vacant Chair. Senator Garston’s Disclosure. Sara Conyers’ Mission. Miss Garland’s Dishonorable Discharge. A Defiance to the Death. “Robbed!” 210–234 XII—Mine and Countermine, 235–257 XIII—A Wedding in High Life, 258–279 XIV—For the Child’s Sake! 280–315 XV—In the Dark Waters, 316–361 IN THE SWIM. BOOK I—A Rising Star. CHAPTER I. “YOUNG LOCHINVAR HAS COME OUT OF THE WEST.” There was an expression of sullen discontent upon the handsome features of Mr. Harold Vreeland (gentleman unattached), as the inbound Hudson River train dashed along under the castled cliffs of Rhinebeck. The afternoon was fair—the river of all rivers glittered gaily in the sun, and a dreamy peace rested on field and stream. But, the peace of this June afternoon of ’95 entered not into the young wayfarer’s soul. The five years which the traveler from nowhere in particular had thrown away in the far wilds of the sporadic West had not yet robbed his chiseled features of the good looks which he had borne away from old Nassau. And, though his glittering blue eye had been trained to a habitual impassiveness by much frontier poker, he had always abjured that Rocky Mountain whisky which “biteth like an adder.”