Produced by Jeannie Howse, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) _The Thunders of Silence_ BY IRVIN S. COBB FICTION THOSE TIMES AND THESE LOCAL COLOR OLD JUDGE PRIEST FIBBLE, D.D. BACK HOME THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM WIT AND HUMOR "SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS----" EUROPE REVISED ROUGHING IT DE LUXE COBB'S BILL OF FARE COBB'S ANATOMY MISCELLANY THE THUNDERS OF SILENCE "SPEAKING OF PRUSSIANS----" PATHS OF GLORY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY NEW YORK [Illustration: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE A MIGHTY PATIENT LOT.] _The Thunders of Silence_ By _Irvin S. Cobb_ Author of "Paths of Glory," "Speaking of Prussians----," etc. ILLUSTRATED [Illustration] New York George H. Doran Company COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA _ILLUSTRATIONS_ The American people are a mighty patient lot. _Frontispiece_ PAGE The lone wolf wasn't a lone wolf any longer. He had a pack to rally about him 16 That's the thing he feeds on--Vanity 32 He may or may not keep faith but you can bet he always keeps a scrap-book 48 _The Thunders of Silence_