The Deluge Chapter of a Legal World
David Graham Phillips continues The Deluge with a tense scene on Anita and the narrator. He reflects on love, money, and power as Old Ellersly’s legacy and Langdon loom, while Blacklock consolidates fortune against Roebuck’s banksters. The narrator plots strategic moves within a Wall Street power struggle, noting Thornley’s guarded stance and the Roebuck leadership’s wary resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welbly
Shell
Mae
Anita
Roebuck and Langdon
Old Ellersly
Galloway
Thad
Langdon
Hoebuck
A Housewarming Plot at Dawn Hill
A narrative unfolds around Anita and Alva with Joe as the chief lieutenant in a scheme to mold Anita into a new life. The narrator manipulates events to fit Anita's imagined dream, finishing a house near Dawn Hill before Anita unexpectedly arrives with news of a large inheritance from a lawyer's note. To be continued.
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Dawn Hill
Anita
Alva
Joe
Morristown
Ehurch
Leutenant
Westlake
Bayshore Road
Indignation Meeting Reveals Hopkins Family Strife
In a rural tale, Mother Jerusha Hopkins leads a quarrelsome kin gathering over John Hopkins’s finances and his wife Claribel’s charity. Accusations fly about debt, gifts, and a minister's salary, prompting a tense confrontation at John’s house where Claribel explains funding books for local children and education projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkinses
Mother Hopkins
Tom
Tle
Jerusha
Melindy
Sophia
John
Claribel
Father Hopins
Mother
Father
Nather
Father Hopkins
Granny Phelps
Sandy
Hopkins
Widder Nelson
B. Bowles
Woodera
Barry
Claribet
Younse Min
Clarivel
Jeresha
John’s
Billy
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David Graham Phillips
Blacklock
Mowbray Langdon
Mowbray
the Roebuck
Neon Clique
Fiist
Kins
Ater
Europe
Broadway
Melville
Blacklock and Company
National Industrial Bank
Men of Anance
Wall Street
National
Leonidas Thornly
Thornley
Butt
Roebuck
Trist
Kat
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