THE
SILENT PARTNER.
BY
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS,
AUTHOR OF “THE GATES AJAR,” “HEDGED IN,” ETC.
“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and
take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh
and consider.”
Bacon.
BOSTON:
JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.
LONDON: SAMPSON LOW & CO.
1871.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,
BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,
Cambridge.