E-text prepared by Fay Dunn, sp1nd, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://archive.org) THE BARRIER The Barrier A Novel By Allen French Author of "The Colonials" New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1904 Copyright, 1904, by Doubleday, Page & Company Published, May, 1904 To C. E. S. and S. P. S. and CONTENTS LIST OF CHARACTERS IN THE ORDER OF THEIR MENTION Stephen F. Ellis, promoter and political boss. Stephen F. Ellis George Mather, a young business man. George Mather Judith Blanchard, of the social set.