[Gutenberg 3321] • Children of the Whirlwind

Leroy Scott (1875-1929) was an American author. His works include: The Walking Delegate (1905), To Him That Hath (1907), Counsel for the Defense (1912), No. 13 Washington Square (1912) and Children of the Whirlwind (1921). It was an uninspiring bit of street: narrow, paved with cobble; hot and noisy in summer, reeking with unwholesome mud during the drizzling and snow-slimed months of winter. It looked anything this May after noon except a starting-place for drama. But, then, the great dramas of life often avoid the splendid estates and trappings with which conventional romance would equip them, and have their beginnings in unlikeliest environment; and thence sweep on to a noble, consuming tragedy, or to a glorious unfolding of souls.