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Title: Under Sealed Orders

Author: H. A. Cody

Release Date: September 17, 2005 [eBook #16714]

Language: English

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UNDER SEALED ORDERS

by

H. A. CODY

Author of
The Frontiersman, The Long Patrol, The Chief of the Ranges, etc.

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

1917

To all "Spuds," successful or unsuccessful; to all "Fools," wise or
unwise; and to all of "The Devil's Poor," not forgetting authors, this
book is sympathetically dedicated.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE LURE OF FALLING WATER
II. TO THE LOWEST BIDDER
III. ONE, AT LEAST, RINGS TRUE
IV. A LITTLE CABIN
V. UNMASKED
VI. OUT OF BONDAGE
VII. AT THE CLOSE OF A DAY
VIII. THE SHADOW OF MYSTERY
IX. UNITED FORCES
X. WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE
XI. CURIOSITY AND ANXIETY
XII. PYRAMID ROCK
XIII. THE DISTURBING LETTER
XIV. SUBTLE INFLUENCE
XV. THE "CUT OFF"
XVI. CHRISTMAS EVE
XVII. THE NIGHT SUMMONS
XVIII. THE WILD NOR'EASTER
XIX. DEVELOPMENTS
XX. BUSINESS DETAILS
XXI. HARNESSED POWER
XXII. IN THE PATH OF DESTRUCTION
XXIII. RESCUED
XXIV. GATHERING CLOUDS
XXV. MYSTERY
XXVI. UNDER SUSPICION
XXVII. IN THE TOILS
XXVIII. LIGHT BREAKS
XXIX. LOIS GOES TO THE CITY
XXX. A STRANGE COMMISSION
XXXI. PAPER NUMBER TWO
XXXII. THE TABLES TURNED
XXXIII. THE REAL HAVEN

UNDER SEALED ORDERS

CHAPTER I

THE LURE OF FALLING WATER

It was evening and a late April wind was whipping down the valley. It
swayed the tops of the tall pine and spruce trees as they shouldered up
from the swift brook below. It tossed into driving spray the water of
Break Neck Falls where it leaped one hundred feet below with a
thundering roar and swirl. It tossed as well the thin grey hair, long
beard, and thread-bare clothes of an old man standing upon a large rock
which towered high a