THE FASCINATING STRANGER
AND OTHER STORIES
BOOKS BY
BOOTH TARKINGTON
ALICE ADAMS
BEASLEY’S CHRISTMAS PARTY
BEAUTY AND THE JACOBIN
CHERRY
CONQUEST OF CANAAN
GENTLE JULIA
HARLEQUIN AND COLUMBINE
HIS OWN PEOPLE
IN THE ARENA
MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE
PENROD
PENROD AND SAM
RAMSEY MILHOLLAND
SEVENTEEN
THE BEAUTIFUL LADY
THE FASCINATING STRANGER AND
OTHER STORIES
THE FLIRT
THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA
THE GUEST OF QUESNAY
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
THE MAN FROM HOME
THE TURMOIL
THE TWO VANREVELS
Fascinating Stranger
And Other Stories
By
Booth Tarkington
Doubleday, Page & Company
1923
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
DOUDLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY IN THE UNITED STATES
AND GREAT BRITAIN
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE RIDGWAY COMPANY IN THE UNITED STATES
AND GREAT BRITAIN
COPYRIGHT, 1921, 1922, BY CONSOLIDATED MAGAZINES CORPORATION
(THE RED BOOK MAGAZINE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY THE McCALL COMPANY, AND UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
First Edition
After the Printing of 377 De Luxe Copies
TO
S. K. T.
CONTENTS
page The Fascinating Stranger 1 The Party 57 The One-Hundred-Dollar Bill 85 Jeannette 121 The Spring Concert 159 Willamilla 194 The Only Child 236 Ladies’ Ways 275 Maytime in Marlow 312 “You” 360 “Us” 391 The Tiger 418 Mary Smith 460
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