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Barton Wood Currie. Officer 666
Officer 666
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
A GRAPEFRUIT PRELUDE
CHAPTER II
MR. HOGG ENTERS THE LISTS
CHAPTER III
WHITNEY BARNES UNDER FIRE
CHAPTER IV
SMILES AND TEARS
CHAPTER V
WHITNEY BARNES TELEPHONES TO THE RITZ
CHAPTER VI
OFFICER 666 ON PATROL
CHAPTER VII
THE LITTLE BROWN JAP
CHAPTER VIII
ART, MYSTERY AND LOVE
CHAPTER IX
THE CURSE OF MILLIONS
CHAPTER X
THE HEARTBEATS OF MR. HOGG
CHAPTER XI
GAINSBOROUGH “BLUE BOY.”
CHAPTER XII
APPROACHING A WORLD OF MYSTERY
CHAPTER VIII
TRAVERS GLADWIN GETS A THRILL
CHAPTER XIV
THRILL BEGETS THRILL
CHAPTER XV
HEROISM, LOVE AND SOMETHING ELSE
CHAPTER XVI
THE TORMENT OF OFFICER 666
CHAPTER XVII
TRAVERS GLADWIN IS CONSIDERABLY JARRED
CHAPTER XVIII
SADIE BECOMES A CONSPIRATOR
CHAPTER XIX
HELEN LEAVES AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE
CHAPTER XX
MICHAEL PHELAN TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XXI
TRAVERS GLADWIN GOES IN SEARCH OF HIMSELF
CHAPTER XXII
A MILLIONAIRE POLICEMAN ON PATROL
CHAPTER XXIII
OLD GRIM BARNES GETS A THRILL
CHAPTER XXIV
AUNTIE TAKES THE TRAIL
CHAPTER XXV
PHELAN MEETS HIS UNIFORM AGAIN
CHAPTER XXVI
GLADWIN MEETS HIMSELF
CHAPTER XXVII
MISADVENTURES OF WHITNEY BARNES
CHAPTER XXVIII
AN INSTANCE OF EPIC NERVE
CHAPTER XXIX
IN WHICH THE HERO IS KEPT ON THE HOP
CHAPTER XXX
GLADWIN COMES OUT OF HIS SHELL
CHAPTER XXXI
A VISIT TO THE EXILED PHELAN
CHAPTER XXXII
IN WHICH BLUFF IS TRUMPS
CHAPTER XXXIII
BATEATO SUMMONS BIG MUCH POLICE
CHAPTER XXXIV
PHELAN LOSES HIS BRIBE
CHAPTER XXXV
BATEATO KEEPS HIS PROMISE
CHAPTER XXXVI
REPARTEE AND A REVOLVER MUZZLE
CHAPTER XXXVII
HANDCUFFS AND LOVE
CHAPTER XXXVIII
KEARNEY MEETS HIS MATCH
CHAPTER XXXIX
PILING ON PHELAN’S AGONY
CHAPTER XL
STRIKING WHILE THE IRON IS HOT
CHAPTER XLI
THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XLII
MICHAEL PHELAN’S PREDICAMENT
CHAPTER XLIII
THE CIRCUMVENTION OF AUNTIE
CHAPTER XLIV
MISS FEATHERINGTON’S SHATTERED DREAM
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Barton Wood Currie, Augustin McHugh
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Haven’t you any one in mind, son?” asked Joshua Barnes, anxiously.
“Absolutely not one, pater. You see, the trouble is that I can’t ever seem to get real chummy with a girl but what her mother has to come and camp on my trail and scare me into fits. You haven’t the least idea what a catch your son is, Joshua Barnes. Why, a mother-in-law looks to me like something in petticoats that comes creeping up with a catlike tread, carrying in one hand a net and in the other a bale-hook. I can’t sit out two dances with a debutante before this nightmare is looking over my shoulder, grinning like a gargoyle and counting up the number of millions you are going to leave me.”
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