Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Last Meeting: A Story
On the afternoon Of a day toward the end of October, a day which was a sample Of the very best the clerk of the weather can Offer to his American customers, Mr. Frederick Olyphant, a young artist, left his studio, in an, Odd little building just back of Tenth Street, afid, passing through a dim alley way into the quiet Side street worn by the feet of three generations of the artists of New York, turned toward Fifth Avenue, pausing only to glance at the clock in the picturesque tower of the jefferson-market Court-house. There was a little tang to the wind as he walked briskly to the corner and started up town. He was going to Mrs. Sutton's, who, that afternoon, was At Home, Tea at Four o'clock. It was almost the first tea Of the season. AS a rule, Frederick Olyphant disliked teas, but at Mrs. Sutton's he hoped to meet Miss Winifred Marshall, with whom he was in love, and who had promised to marry him.
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