THE GRAIN OF DUST 

 A NOVEL 

 BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS 

 ILLUSTRATED BY A.B. WENZELL 

 1911 

Contents

  I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII 

     LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 

 "'I will teach you to love me,' he cried." 

 "'You won't make an out-and-out idiot of yourself, will you Ursula?'" 

 "'Would you like to think I was marrying you for what you have?—or for any other reason whatever but for what you are?'" 

 "'It has killed me,' he groaned." 

 "She glanced complacently down at her softly glistening shoulders." 

 "'Father ... I have asked you not to interfere between Fred and me.'" 

 "Evidently she had been crying." 

 "At Josephine's right sat a handsome young foreigner." 

     THE GRAIN OF DUST 

 

     I 

 Into the offices of Lockyer, Sanders, Benchley, Lockyer & Norman, corporation lawyers, there drifted on a December afternoon a girl in search of work at stenography and typewriting. The firm was about the most important and most famous—radical orators often said infamous—in New York. The girl seemed, at a glance, about as unimportant and obscure an atom as the city hid in its vast ferment. She was blonde—tawny 

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