Seven Keys to Baldpate
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Earl Derr Biggers. Seven Keys to Baldpate
CHAPTER I "WEEP NO MORE, MY LADY"
CHAPTER II. ENTER A LOVELORN HABERDASHER
CHAPTER III. BLONDES AND SUFFRAGETTES
CHAPTER IV. A PROFESSIONAL HERMIT APPEARS
CHAPTER V. THE MAYOR CASTS A SHADOW BEFORE
CHAPTER VI. GHOSTS OF THE SUMMER CROWD
CHAPTER VII. THE MAYOR BEGINS A VIGIL
CHAPTER VIII. MR. MAX TELLS A TALE OF SUSPICION
CHAPTER IX. MELODRAMA IN THE SNOW
CHAPTER X. THE COLD GRAY DAWN
CHAPTER XI. A FALSEHOOD UNDER THE PALMS
CHAPTER XII. WOE IN NUMBER SEVEN
CHAPTER XIII. THE EXQUISITE MR. HAYDEN
CHAPTER XIV. THE SIGN OF THE OPEN WINDOW
CHAPTER XV. TABLE TALK
CHAPTER XVI. A MAN FROM THE DARK
CHAPTER XVII. THE PROFESSOR SUMS UP
CHAPTER XVIII. A RED CARD
CHAPTER XIX. EXEUNT OMNES, AS SHAKESPEARE HAS IT
CHAPTER XX. THE ADMIRAL'S GAME
CHAPTER XXI. THE MAYOR IS WELCOMED HOME
CHAPTER XXII. THE USUAL THING
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Baldpate Inn did not stand tiptoe on the misty mountain-top. Instead it clung with grim determination to the side of Baldpate, about half-way up, much as a city man clings to the running board of an open street-car. This was the comparison Mr. Magee made, and even as he made it he knew that atmospheric conditions rendered it questionable. For an open street-car suggests summer and the ball park; Baldpate Inn, as it shouldered darkly into Mr. Magee's ken, suggested winter at its most wintry.
About the great black shape that was the inn, like arms, stretched broad verandas. Mr. Magee remarked upon them to his companion.
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"What are you doing here?" cried the youth wildly.
"I live here," Mr. Magee assured him. "Won't you come up to my room – it's right at the head of the stairs. I have a fire, you know."
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