Excerpt from The Rise of Silas Lapham When Bartley Hubbard went to interview Silas Lapham for the Solid Men of Boston series, which he undertook to finish up in The Events, after be replaced their original projector on that newspaper, Lapham received him in his private office by previous appointment. Walk right in i he called out to the journalist, whom he caught sight of through the door of the counting-room. He did not rise from' the desk at which he was writing, but he gave Bartley his left hand for welcome, and he rolled his large head in the direction of a vacant chair. Sit down I'll be with you in just half a minute. Take your time, said Bartley, with the ease he instantly felt. I'm in no hurry. He took a note book from his pocket, laid it on his knee, and began to sharpen a pencil. There l Lapham pounded with his great hairy fist on the envelope he 'had been addressing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.