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Title: Bart Ridgeley
A Story of Northern Ohio

Author: A. G. Riddle

Release Date: May 3, 2004 [EBook #12249]

Language: English

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BART RIDGELEY;

A STORY OF NORTHERN OHIO.

BY

A.G. RIDDLE

1873.

CONTENTS.

I. A FAILURE

II. THE BLUE CHAMBER

III. NEWBURY

IV. AT THE POST OFFICE

V. MRS. MARKHAM'S VIEWS

VI. WHAT HE THOUGHT OF THINGS

VII. LOGIC OF THE GODS

VIII. A RAMBLE IN THE WOODS, AND WHAT CAME OF IT

IX. A DARKENED SOUL

X. AFTER THE FLOOD

XI. UNCLE ALECK

XII. A CONSECRATION

XIII. BLACKSTONE

XIV. THE YOUNG IDEA SHOOTS

XV. SNOW'S PARTY

XVI. WALTZ

XVII. BART

XVIII. SUGAR MAKING

XIX. HENRY

XX. WHAT THE GIRLS SAID

XXI. A DEPARTURE

XXII. A SHATTERED COLUMN

XXIII. THE STORM

XXIV. A LAW SUIT (TO BE SKIPPED)

XXV. THE WARNING

XXVI. LOST

XXVII. THE BABES IN THE WOODS

XXVIII. AT JUDGE MARKHAM'S

XXIX. AFTER

XXX. JEFFERSON

XXXI. OLD BEN

XXXII. THE LETTERS

XXXIII. AT WILDER'S

XXXIV. ROUGH SKETCHES

XXXV. SARTLIFF

XXXVI. OLD GID

XXXVII. THE OLD STORY

XXXVIII. THE OLD STORY OVER AGAIN

XXXIX. ABOUT LAWYERS, AND DULL

XL. THE DISGUISE

XLI. THE INVITATION

XLII. ADMITTED

XLIII. JULIA

XLIV. FINDING THE WAY

XLV. SOME THINGS PUT AT REST

XLVI. PRINCE ARTHUR

XLVII. THE TRIAL

XLVIII. THE ADVOCATE

XLIX. WAITING

L. THE GOSPEL OF LOVE

LI. THE RETURN

LII. FINAL DREAM LAND

CHAPTER I.

A FAILURE.

He could see from the top of the hill, down which the road wound to
the river, that the bridge was gone, and he paused for a moment
with an involuntary feeling that it was useless to