Produced by Roger Frank, Bruce Albrecht and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: "The rich voice of the bishop was as impressive as it had ever been." (See page 77)] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE INDIFFERENCE OF JULIET By GRACE S. RICHMOND Author of "The Second Violin" "The Dixons" With Illustrations By HENRY HUTT A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright, 1902, 1903, 1904, by The Curtis Publishing Company Copyright, 1905, by Doubleday, Page & Company Published, March, 1905 All rights reserved, including that of translation--also right of translation into the Scandinavian languages ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Father and Mother ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. An Audacious Proposition 3 II. Measurements 12 III. Shopping with a Chaperon 17 IV. The Cost of Frocks 23 V. Muslins and Tackhammers 30 VI. A Question of Identity 36 VII. An Argument Without Logic 46 VIII. On Account of the Tea-Kettle 57 IX. A Bishop and a Hay-Wagon 69 X. On a Threshold 80 XII. The Bachelor Begs a Dish-Towel 101 XIII. Smoke and Talk 114 XIV. Strawberries 120 XV. Anthony Plays Maid 136 XVI. A House-Party--Outdoors 144 XVII. Rachel Causes Anxiety 155 XVIII. An Unknown Quantity 164 XIX. All the April Stars Are Out 175 XX. A Prior Claim 181 XXI. Everybody Gives Advice 191 XXII. Roger Barnes Proves Invaluable 201 XXIII. Two Not of a Kind 215 XXIV. The Careys Are at Home 233 XXV. The Robeson Will 246 XXVI. On Guard 266 XXVII. Lockwood Pays a Call 282 XXVIII. A High-Handed Affair 294 XXIX. Juliet Proves Herself Still Indifferent 303 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS HORATIO MARCY, an elderly New Englander of some wealth. ANTHONY ROBESON, the last young male representative of the Kentucky ROBESONS, now making his own way in Massachusetts. WAYNE CAREY, Robeson's former college chum, an office clerk on a salary. DR. ROGER WILLIAMS BARNES, a surgeon. LOUIS LOCKWOOD, an attorney-at-law.