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Title: The Portal of Dreams

Author: Charles Neville Buck

Illustrator: Frank Snapp

Release Date: April 9, 2010 [EBook #31927]

Language: English

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_The_ PORTAL OF DREAMS

by CHARLES NEVILLE BUCK

_Author of_ "THE KEY TO YESTERDAY" "THE LIGHTED MATCH" etc.

_Illustrated by_ FRANK SNAPP

NEW YORK
W. J. WATT & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1912

_Published September_

[Illustration: "Sit down!" he thundered.]

CONTENTS

I. A VISION UPON A WARNING

II. PURSUING A WILL-O'-THE-WISP

III. I EMBARK ON A FOOL'S ERRAND

IV. SOME PASSAGES FROM A DIARY

V. PREMONITIONS BECOME REALITIES

VI. THE END OF THE "WASTREL"

VII. IN STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES

VIII. NATURE INDULGES IN SATIRE

IX. A PORTRAIT AND A TEMPLE

X. I SEEK ORCHIDS

XI. I FIND MYSELF A DEMI-GOD

XII. PORT AND STARBOARD LIGHTS

XIII. ENTER THE INFANTRYMAN

XIV. THE "ASH-TRASH LADY"

XV. TWO DISCOVERIES

XVI. AN INTERVIEW AND A CRISIS

XVII. WE GO TO THE MOUNTAINS

XVIII. A CHAT WITH A DICTATOR

XIX. A VOLLEY FROM THE LAUREL

XX. A CAVALCADE FROM THE LAUREL

XXI. I GO WALKING AND MEET ENEMIES

XXII. I FAIL TO RETURN HOME

XXIII. THE OFFER OF PAROLE

XXIV. MY DAY IN COURT

XXV. BEING LAUGHED AT

List of Illustrations

"Sit down!" he thundered.

A young woman was sitting before a counter, with her back to the street,
trying on gloves.

"Frances! Frances! Frances!" I declaimed with the deep profundity of a
ritual.

"You are a great traveler, aren't you, Mr. Deprayne?" she suggested when
the silence had begun to be oppressive.

THE PORTAL OF DREAMS

CHAPTER I

A VISION UPON A WARNING

The doctor was so