Mark Mason's Victory: The Trials and Triumphs of a Telegraph Boy
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Horatio Alger Jr.. Mark Mason's Victory: The Trials and Triumphs of a Telegraph Boy
CHAPTER I. TWO STRANGERS FROM SYRACUSE
CHAPTER II. WHERE MARK LIVED
CHAPTER III. AN UNEXPECTED CALL
CHAPTER IV. A NIGHT AT DALY'S
CHAPTER V. MARK AS A HERO
CHAPTER VI "THE EVENING GLOBE."
CHAPTER VII. THE GREAT MR. BUNSBY
CHAPTER VIII. A SCENE IN MRS. MACK'S ROOM
CHAPTER IX. AN ADVENTURE IN A FIFTH AVENUE STAGE
CHAPTER X. AN IMPORTANT COMMISSION
CHAPTER XI. MR. HAMILTON SCHUYLER IS ASTONISHED
CHAPTER XII. MR. SCHUYLER HAS A BAD TIME
CHAPTER XIII. MARK STARTS ON A JOURNEY
CHAPTER XIV. THE TELLTALE MEMORANDUM
CHAPTER XV. A RAILROAD INCIDENT
CHAPTER XVI. MARK AS A DETECTIVE
CHAPTER XVII. MARK MAKES A CALL ON EUCLID AVENUE
CHAPTER XVIII. A MIDNIGHT VISIT
CHAPTER XIX. AT NIAGARA FALLS
CHAPTER XX. A NEWSPAPER PARAGRAPH
CHAPTER XXI. MARK RETURNS HOME
CHAPTER XXII. A CRAFTY SCHEMER
CHAPTER XXIII. MARK'S GOOD LUCK
CHAPTER XXIV. THE TWO SISTERS MEET
CHAPTER XXV. MAUD GILBERT'S PARTY
CHAPTER XXVI. AN IMPORTANT COMMISSION
CHAPTER XXVII. LAST INSTRUCTIONS
CHAPTER XXVIII. MARK AT OMAHA
CHAPTER XXIX. NAHUM SPRAGUE AND HIS ORPHAN WARD
CHAPTER XXX. A CIRCUS IN MR. SPRAGUE'S YARD
CHAPTER XXXI. PHILIP FINDS A FRIEND
CHAPTER XXXII. NAHUM SPRAGUE'S SURPRISE
CHAPTER XXXIII. A CHANGE FOR PHILIP
CHAPTER XXXIV. ON THE WAY HOME
CHAPTER XXXV. EDGAR GETS INTO TROUBLE
CHAPTER XXXVI. AT THE FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL
CHAPTER XXXVII. SOLON TALBOT'S PLANS
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE MINING STOCK IS SOLD
CHAPTER XXXIX. CONCLUSION
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There is a large tenement house on St. Mark's Place, between Third Avenue and Avenue A. The suites of rooms consist, as is the general New York custom in tenement houses, of one square apartment used as kitchen, sitting room and parlor combined, and two small bedrooms opening out of it.
It was in an apartment of this kind on the third floor back, that Mark Mason's mother and little sister Edith lived. It was a humble home, and plainly furnished, but a few books and pictures saved from the wreck of their former prosperity, gave the rooms an air of refinement not to be found in those of their neighbors.
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"There isn't much hope there, Mark. She feels poorer than I do, though I am told she has five thousand dollars out at interest."
"Never mind. I am going to try her."
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