The Jingo

George Randolph Chester (1869-1924) was an American author. His works include: Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1908), The Cash Intrigue (1909), The Making of Bobby Burnit (1909), Young Wallingford (1910), The Early Bird (1910), The Jingo (1912), Five Thousand an Hour (1912), Wallingford and Blackie Daw (1913), Wallingford in His Prime (1913), The Ball of Fire (with Lillian Chester) (1914), Cordelia Blossom (1914) and Pay (1915). "The king slapped his hand to the back of his neck and jumped to his feet. Shaking the rain from his hair; he slammed and bolted the big wooden shutters just behind him. The princess, in the supple devilment of her nineteen years, leaned meekly against the shutters, but there was a suspicious spark in the wide brown eyes with which she held her brother's attention. "