THE WALKING DELEGATE [Illustration: THE WALKING DELEGATE] The Walking Delegate By Leroy Scott _With Frontispiece_ New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1905 Copyright, 1905, by Doubleday, Page & Company Published May, 1905 _All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian_ To My Wife CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. ON THE ST. ETIENNE HOTEL 3 II. THE WALKING DELEGATE 14 III. THE RISE OF BUCK FOLEY 30 IV. A COUNCIL OF WAR 9 V. TOM SEEKS HELP FROM THE ENEMY 50 VI. IN WHICH FOLEY PLAYS WITH TWO MICE 59 VII. GETTING THE MEN IN LINE 72 VIII. THE COWARD 85 IX. RUTH ARNOLD 98 X. LAST DAYS OF THE CAMPAIGN 111 XI. IN FOLEY'S "OFFICE" 120 XII. THE ELECTION 129 XIII. THE DAY AFTER 145 XIV. NEW COURAGE AND NEW PLANS 153 XV. MR. BAXTER HAS A FEW CONFERENCES 166 XVI. BLOWS 177 XVII. THE ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE 187 XVIII. THE STOLEN STRIKE 203 XIX. FOLEY TASTES REVENGE 210 XX. TOM HAS A CALLER 224 XXI. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 236 XXII. THE PROGRESS OF THE STRIKE 250 XXIII. THE TRIUMPH OF BUSINESS SENSE 257 XXIV. BUSINESS IS BUSINESS 267 XXV. IN WHICH FOLEY BOWS TO DEFEAT 279 XXVI. PETERSEN'S SIN 290 XXVII. THE THOUSANDTH CHANCE 304 XXVIII. THE EXPOSURE 313 XXIX. IN WHICH MR. BAXTER SHOWS HIMSELF A MAN OF RESOURCES 331 XXX. THE LAST OF BUCK FOLEY 338 XXXI. TOM'S LEVEE 348 XXXII. THE THORN OF THE ROSE 364 LIST OF CHARACTERS BUCK FOLEY, a walking delegate. TOM KEATING, a foreman. MAGGIE KEATING, his wife. MR. BAXTER, President of Iron Employers' Ass'n. MRS. BAXTER. MR. DRISCOLL, a contractor. RUTH ARNOLD, his secretary. MR. BERMAN, junior partner of Mr. Driscoll. MR. MURPHY, a contractor. MR. BOBBS, a contractor. MR. ISAACS, a contractor. CONNELLY, Secretary of Iron Workers' Union. NELS PETERSEN, a "scab." ANNA PETERSEN, his wife. PIG IRON PETE, a workman JOHNSON, a workman. BARRY, a workman. MRS. BARRY. JAKE HENDERSON } ARKANSAS NUMBER TWO } Members of KAFFIR BILL } "The Entertainment SMOKEY } Committee." HICKEY } THE WALKING DELEGATE Chapter I ON THE ST. ETIENNE HOTEL The St. Etienne Hotel would some day be as bulky and as garishly magnificent as four million dollars could make it. Now it was only a steel framework rearing itself into the center of the overhead grayness--a black pier supporting the grimy arch of heaven.