NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH By FREDERIC S. ISHAM Author of The Strollers, Under the Rose, The Social Buccaneer, Etc. INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright 1914 The Bobbs-Merrill Company PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y. Table of Contents THE TEMERITY OF BOB A TRY-OUT AN INAUSPICIOUS BEGINNING A CHAT ON THE LINKS TRIVIALITIES DINNER VARYING VICISSITUDES NEW COMPLICATIONS ANOTHER SURPRISE INTO BONDAGE FISHING JUST ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER AN ENFORCED REST CURE MUTINY AN EXTRAORDINARY INTERVIEW PLAYING WITH BOB A GOOD DEAL OF GEE-GEE A FORMIDABLE ADVERSARY BOB FORGETS HIMSELF HAND-READING HEART OF STONE A REAL BENEFACTOR MAKING GOOD AT THE PORTALS NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH CHAPTER I—THE TEMERITY OF BOB “It can’t be done.” “Of course, it can.” “A man couldn’t survive the ordeal.” “Could do it myself.” The scene was the University Club. The talk spread over a good deal of space, as talk will when pink cocktails, or “green gardens in a glass” confront, or are in front of, the talkees. Dickie said it couldn’t be done and Bob said it was possible and that he could do it. He might not have felt such confidence had it not been for the verdant stimulation. He could have done anything just then, so why not this particular feat or stunt? And who was this temerarious one and what was he like?