The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories

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Charles Weathers Bump. The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories

The Mermaid of Druid Lake

The Goddess of Truth

A Daughter of Cuba Libre

A Two-Party Line

I (Tuesday, October 23, 1906.)

II (Five Minutes Later.)

III (Ten Minutes Later.)

IV (Wednesday, October 24.)

V (Ten Minutes Later.)

VI (9 A. M. Friday, October 26.)

VII (Friday, November 2.)

VIII (Thursday, December 6.)

IX (Monday, January 21, 1907.)

X (Tuesday, February 5.)

XI (Wednesday, April 10.)

XII (Wednesday, June 4.)

Timon Up To Date

The Night That Patti Sang

An Island On A Jamboree

Alexander the Great

Breaking Into Medicine

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II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

XIV

XV

XVI

XVII

The Pink Ghost of Franklin Square

The Vanished Mummy

"Mount Vernon 1-0-0-0"

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Not everybody was pleased among the many thousands who on September 12, 1906, saw the industrial parade with which Baltimore celebrated its wonderful recovery from the blow given by the great fire of 1904. Tobias Greenfield, head of a Lexington-street department store, was one who was not. He was angry, violently so. He had been in a chipper mood all morning and had enjoyed watching the long line from the windows of a bedecorated wholesale house on Baltimore street. But when his eyes alighted on the float of his own firm, the anger came. And the longer it stayed with him, the worse it grew, especially as he could not escape the prodding of the friends who had invited him to their warehouse.

When he could decently slip away from them he went to his office and peremptorily called for his advertising manager.

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"Maude!" he exclaimed, simply, as he hurried up the marble steps.

"Bill Henry!" she cried, faintly.

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