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Title: Winner Take All

Author: Larry Evans

Release Date: July 14, 2006 [eBook #18829]

Language: English

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WINNER TAKE ALL

by

LARRY EVANS

Author of
Then I'll Come Back to You, Once to Every Man, Etc.

[Frontispiece: That, after all, was as much as anyone could ask.]

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers ------ New York
Copyright, 1920, by
The H. K. Fly Company
Copyright, 1920, by
The Metropolitan Magazine Company

TO

GEORGE C. TYLER

Some of these pages you have criticised,
some of them you have praised; and
all of them beg leave to recall herewith
the Author's esteem and affection.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. IS LUCK A LADY?
II. RIDE HIM, COWBOY!
III. LITTLE-TWEED-SUIT
IV. ALL ELSE IS HERESY
V. CHAMPION! CHAMPION!
VI. FELICITY CROSSES BROADWAY
VII. AS WILLOWS BUD IN SPRING
VIII. MY LAD
IX. DUNHAM TALKS BUSINESS
X. CECILLE PLAYS THE GAME
XI. POTS AND PANS!
XII. WINNER TAKE ALL
XIII. BLUE FOR A BOY

ILLUSTRATIONS

That, after all, was as much as anyone could ask . . _Frontispiece_

He tore at them, mad with rage.

Lucky interference.

"Come on, now--'fess up?"

WINNER TAKE ALL

CHAPTER I

IS LUCK A LADY?

By easy stages Blue Jeans had arrived at the water tanks.

That had not pleased him much, though the water which fell in a musical
drip from the stack nearest the rails into what impressed one as a
sensible, frugal tub, until it, too, filled and overflowed and betrayed
its trivial nature, was sweet on his tongue and grateful to his mare.

Arriving anywhere by easy stages had never appealed to