The Lonely Warrior

Excerpt from The Lonely Warrior. "On the afternoon of the fifth day of November, 1914, Edward Carroll was sitting as usual in his pleasant inner office the windows of which looked down upon the middlewestern city where Mr. Carroll had lived for forty of his fifty-six years. But he was not behaving quite as usual. At this hour he should normally have been conferring with other men upon matters of importance - matters concerning the cement works of which he was vice-president, or the bank of ...