Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/keeban00balm KEEBAN * * * * * * By Edwin Balmer RESURRECTION ROCK THE BREATH OF SCANDAL KEEBAN _In collaboration with_ William MacHarg THE BLIND MAN’S EYES THE INDIAN DRUM * * * * * * KEEBAN by EDWIN BALMER [Illustration: Logo] Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1923 Copyright, 1923, By Edwin Balmer. All rights reserved Published April, 1923 Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I MY BROTHER FINDS HIMSELF IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE 1 II AND ESCAPES FROM BOTH 14 III I HAVE AN ENCOUNTER BY THE RIVER 31 IV I SIT IN ON FATE 48 V THE UNDERWORLD INTRUDES 60 VI AND I FAIL TO PREVENT A BUMP-OFF 72 VII I KEEP MY OWN COUNSEL 87 VIII A LADY DISCREDITS ME 98 IX I SEEK THE UNDERWORLD 107 X AND LEARN THE WAYS OF ITS LOGIC 116 XI THE THIEVES’ BALL 134 XII I DISCOVER “THE QUEER” 153 XIII AND LEARN THE SOOTHING EFFECTS OF FOND DU LAC TWINS 173 XIV I TAKE GOVERNMENT ORDERS 185 XV IN WHICH I ASSIST A GET-AWAY 196 XVI I WALK INTO A PARLOR 210 XVII CHIEFLY DEVOTED TO A GAS CALLED KX 219 XVIII DORIS APPEARS AND VANISHES 239 XIX I HEAR OF THE GLASS ROOM 248 XX DORIS AND I ARE TAKEN TO IT 256 XXI DORIS ENTERS THE GLASS ROOM 267 XXII A CROAKING AND FINIS 287 KEEBAN I MY BROTHER FINDS HIMSELF IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE. The quick, quiet unlocking and then the closing of the hall door on the floor below told me that Jerry had come in; so I sat up, roused as I always was when I felt him about. He put life into any place,--even into an Astor Street marble mansion in the somnolence of two-thirty on a morning after everybody else has gone to bed. Since my light was on, although it was only a shaded reading lamp and although the double blinds before my window must have prevented more than the merest glint outside, I was sure Jerry had noticed from the street that I was awake; for he notices everything; and everything bears to him a meaning which he has the clear head and the nervous energy to make out. I never realized, till I began analyzing Jerry, how much more you need than a brain for thinking; to get anywhere, you must have a sort of habitual energy to tackle incidents and carry them in your mind beyond the first, simple registry of the observed fact.