The King of Arcadia

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Lynde Francis. The King of Arcadia

I. THE CRYPTOGRAM

II. THE TRIPPERS

III. THE REVERIE OF A BACHELOR

IV. ARCADY

V "FIRE IN THE ROCK!"

VI. ELBOW CANYON

VII. THE POLO PLAYERS

VIII. CASTLE 'CADIA

IX. THE BRINK OF HAZARD

X. HOSKINS'S GHOST

XI. GUN PLAY

XII. THE RUSTLERS

XIII. THE LAW AND THE LADY

XIV. THE MAXIM

XV. HOSPES ET HOSTIS

XVI. THE RETURN OF THE OMEN

XVII. THE DERRICK FUMBLES

XVIII. THE INDICTMENT

XIX. IN THE LABORATORY

XX. THE GEOLOGIST

XXI. MR. PELHAM'S GAME-BAG

XXII. A CRY IN THE NIGHT

XXIII. DEEP UNTO DEEP

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It was on the Monday afternoon that Breckenridge Ballard made the base-runner's dash through the station gates in the Boston terminal, and stood in the rearmost vestibule of his outgoing train to watch for the passing of a certain familiar suburb where, at the home of the hospitable Lassleys, he had first met Miss Craigmiles.

On the Wednesday evening following, he was gathering his belongings in the sleeper of a belated Chicago train preparatory to another dash across platforms – this time in the echoing station at Council Bluffs – to catch the waiting "Overland Flyer" for the run to Denver.

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Ballard nodded, and she went on.

"Then there are Mrs. Van Bryck and Dosia – I am sure you have met them; and Hetty Bigelow, their cousin, twice removed, whom you have never met, if Cousin Janet could help it; and Hetty's brother, Lucius, who is something or other in the Forestry Service. Let me see; how many is that?"

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