E-text prepared by D Alexander and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) JACOB’S LADDER BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM WITH FRONTISPIECE BY F. VAUX WILSON BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1921 Copyright, 1921, By Little, Brown, and Company. By Little, Brown, and Company. All rights reserved Published February, 1921 THE COLONIAL PRESS C. H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U. S. A. “I AM OBLIGED TO YOU ALL FOR PUTTING UP WITH MY COMPANY FOR SO LONG.” FRONTISPIECE. See page 17. CONTENTS Prologue Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV