Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) By Meredith Nicholson OTHERWISE PHYLLIS. With frontispiece in color. THE PROVINCIAL AMERICAN AND OTHER PAPERS. A HOOSIER CHRONICLE. With illustrations. THE SIEGE OF THE SEVEN SUITORS. With illustrations. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK OTHERWISE PHYLLIS [Illustration: PHYLLIS] OTHERWISE PHYLLIS BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1913 COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published September 1913_ TO ALBERT B. ANDERSON A CITIZEN OF THE HOOSIER COMMONWEALTH WHOSE ATTAINMENTS AS LAWYER AND JUDGE HAVE ADDED TO THE FAME OF MONTGOMERY THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED WITH SINCERE REGARD AND ADMIRATION CONTENTS I. THE KIRKWOODS BREAK CAMP 1 II. THE MONTGOMERYS OF MONTGOMERY 14 III. 98 BUCKEYE LANE 34 IV. A TRANSACTION IN APPLES 51 V. THE OTHERWISENESS OF PHYLLIS 65 VI. THE SMOKING-OUT OF AMZI 78 VII. GHOSTS SEE THE LIGHT AGAIN 91 VIII. LISTENING HILL 104 IX. ON AN ORCHARD SLOPE 113 X. PHIL'S PARTY 123 XI. BROTHERS 144 XII. NAN BARTLETT'S DECISION 158 XIII. THE BEST INTERESTS OF MONTGOMERY 168 XIV. TURKEY RUN 182 XV. LOIS 201 XVI. MERRY CHRISTMAS 217 XVII. PHIL'S PERPLEXITIES 241 XVIII. AMZI IS FLABBERGASTED 259 XIX. PHIL MOVES TO AMZI'S 272 XX. BACK TO STOP SEVEN 281 XXI. PHIL'S FISTS 292 XXII. MR. WATERMAN'S GREAT OPPORTUNITY 308 XXIII. PLEASANT TIMES IN MAIN STREET 321 XXIV. THE FORSAKEN GARDEN 336 XXV. PHIL ENCOUNTERS THE SHERIFF 355 XXVI. A CALL IN BUCKEYE LANE 373 XXVII. AMZI'S PERFIDY 385 OTHERWISE PHYLLIS OTHERWISE PHYLLIS CHAPTER I THE KIRKWOODS BREAK CAMP "Stuff's all packed, Phil, and on the wagon. Camera safe on top and your suit-case tied to the tail-gate. Shall we march?" "Not crazy about it, daddy. Why not linger another week? We can unlimber in a jiffy."