Produced by becky1166, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: "'He _is_ a trouble, Mrs. Lathrop.'" FRONTISPIECE(_See page 21._)] Susan Clegg And a Man in the House BY ANNE WARNER Author of "Susan Clegg and her Friend Mrs. Lathrop," "A Woman's Will," "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary," "Seeing France with Uncle John," etc. _Illustrated from Drawings by_ ALICE BARBER STEPHENS Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1907 _Copyright, 1906_, By Katharine N. Birdsall _Copyright, 1907_, By The Butterick Company, Ltd. _Copyright, 1907_, By Little, Brown, and Company _All rights reserved_ Published October, 1907 GRIFFITH-STILLINGS PRESS, BOSTON, MASS., U.S.A. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Man's Proposal 1 II. Elijah Doxey and His Locked Box 20 III. The First Issue of the Newspaper 32 IV. Settling down after the Honeymoon 43 V. Susan Clegg's Full Day 64 VI. The Editor's Advice Column 85 VII. Mrs. Macy and the Convention 98 VIII. The Biennial 113 IX. The Far Eastern Tropics 128 X. The Evils of Delayed Decease 142 XI. The Democratic Party 156 XII. The Trials of Mrs. Macy 168 XIII. Monotony of Ministerial Monologues 200 XIV. Advisability of Newspaper Exposures 212 XV. The Trial of a Sick Man in the House 223 XVI. The Beginning of the End 235 XVII. An Old-fashioned Fourth 251 XVIII. Celebrating Independence Day 261 XIX. Exit the Man out of Susan Clegg's House 273 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS "'He _is_ a trouble, Mrs. Lathrop.'" _Frontispiece_ PAGE "'A lady come up, looked at my flag, an' asked me if I was a delegate or an alternative'" 119 "'Mrs. Macy was just about plum paralyzed at _that_'" 179 "'The bottom come out an' the duck flew down the car'" 188 Susan Clegg And a Man in the House CHAPTER I MAN'S PROPOSAL