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Title: Money Magic
A Novel

Author: Hamlin Garland

Release Date: October 23, 2009 [EBook #30318]

Language: English

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MONEY MAGIC

By HAMLIN GARLAND

SUNSET EDITION

HARPER & BROTHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

COPYRIGHT 1907 BY HAMLIN GARLAND

[Illustration: HE ROSE AND WALKED UP AND DOWN]

CONTENTS

I. THE CLERK OF THE GOLDEN EAGLE

II. MARSHALL HANEY CHANGES HEART

III. BERTHA YIELDS TO TEMPTATION

IV. HANEY MEETS AN AVENGER

V. BERTHA'S UPWARD FLIGHT

VI. THE HANEY PALACE

VII. BERTHA REPULSES AN ENEMY

VIII. BERTHA RECEIVES AN INVITATION

IX. BERTHA MEETS BEN FORDYCE

X. BEN FORDYCE CALLS ON HORSEBACK

XI. BEN BECOMES ADVISER TO MRS. HANEY

XII. ALICE HEATH HAS A VISION

XIII. BERTHA'S YELLOW CART

XIV. THE JOLLY SEND-OFF

XV. MART'S VISIT TO HIS SISTER

XVI. A DINNER AND A PLAY

XVII. BERTHA BECOMES A PATRON OF ART

XVIII. BERTHA'S PORTRAIT IS DISCUSSED

XIX. THE FARTHER EAST

XX. BERTHA MEETS MANHATTAN

XXI. BERTHA MAKES A PROMISE

XXII. THE SERPENT'S COIL

XXIII. BERTHA'S FLIGHT

XXIV. THE HANEYS RETURN TO THE PEAKS

XXV. BERTHA'S DECISION

XXVI. ALICE VISITS HANEY

XXVII. MARSHALL HANEY'S SENTENCE

XXVIII. VIRTUE TRIUMPHS

XXIX. MARSHALL HANEY'S LAST TRAIL

MONEY MAGIC

CHAPTER I

THE CLERK OF THE GOLDEN EAGLE

Sibley Junction is in the sub-tropic zone of Colorado. It lies in a hot,
dry, but immensely productive valley at an altitude of some four
thousand feet above the sea, a village laced with irrigating ditches,
shaded by big cotton-wood-trees, and beat upon by a genial,
generous-minded sun. The boarders at the Golden Eagle Hotel can sit on
the front stoop and see