Оглавление
B. M. Bower. The Uphill Climb
The Uphill Climb
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
"Married! And I Don't Know Her Name!"
CHAPTER II
Wanted: Information
CHAPTER III
One Way to Drown Sorrow
CHAPTER IV
Reaction
CHAPTER V
"I Can Spare this Particular Girl"
She lifted her head and looked at him, and drew away
CHAPTER VI
The Problem of Getting Somewhere
CHAPTER VII
The Foreman of the Double Cross
CHAPTER VIII
"I Wish You'd Quit Believing in Me!"
CHAPTER IX
Impressions
CHAPTER X
In Which the Demon Opens an Eye and Yawns
CHAPTER XI
"It's Going to Be an Uphill Climb!"
CHAPTER XII
At Hand-Grips with the Demon
CHAPTER XIII
A Plan Gone Wrong
Dick tottered upon the step and went off backward
CHAPTER XIV
The Feminine Point of View
CHAPTER XV
The Climb
"Ford, I'm no coquette," she said straightforwardly
CHAPTER XVI
To Find and Free a Wife
CHAPTER XVII
What Ford Found at the Top
THE END
Отрывок из книги
B. M. Bower
Published by Good Press, 2022
.....
Sandy eyed him doubtfully while he scraped the ashes from the grate.
"You may want a dozen steaks, but that ain't saying you're going to git 'em," he retorted, with a feeble show of aggression. "And 's far as licking me goes—" He stopped to blow warmth upon his fingers, which were numbed with their grasp of the poker. "As for licking me, I guess you'll have to do that on the strength uh bacon and sour-dough biscuits; if you do it at all, which I claim the privilege uh doubting a whole lot."
.....
