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Title: Seven Keys to Baldpate
Author: Earl Derr Biggers
Release Date: January 2, 2010 [EBook #30836]
Language: English
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SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE
BY EARL DERR BIGGERS
Buccaneer Books
NEW YORK
Copyright 1913 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-66864
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I "WEEP NO MORE, MY LADY"
II ENTER A LOVELORN HABERDASHER
III BLONDES AND SUFFRAGETTES
IV A PROFESSIONAL HERMIT APPEARS
V THE MAYOR CASTS A SHADOW BEFORE
VI GHOSTS OF THE SUMMER CROWD
VII THE MAYOR BEGINS A VIGIL
VIII MR. MAX TELLS A TALE OF SUSPICION
IX MELODRAMA IN THE SNOW
X THE COLD GRAY DAWN
XI A FALSEHOOD UNDER THE PALMS
XII WOE IN NUMBER SEVEN
XIII THE EXQUISITE MR. HAYDEN
XIV THE SIGN OF THE OPEN WINDOW
XV TABLE TALK
XVI A MAN FROM THE DARK
XVII THE PROFESSOR SUMS UP
XVIII A RED CARD
XIX EXEUNT OMNES, AS SHAKESPEARE HAS IT
XX THE ADMIRAL'S GAME
XXI THE MAYOR IS WELCOMED HOME
XXII THE USUAL THING
SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE
CHAPTER I
"WEEP NO MORE, MY LADY"
A young woman was crying bitterly in the waiting-room of the railway
station at Upper Asquewan Falls, New York.
A beautiful young woman? That is exactly what Billy Magee wanted to know
as, closing the waiting-room door behind him, he stood staring just
inside. Were the features against which that frail bit of cambric was
agonizingly pressed of a pleasing contour? The girl's neatly tailored
corduroy suit and her flippant but charming millinery augured well.
Should he step gallantly forward and inquire in sympathetic tones as to
the cause of her woe? Should he carry chivalry even to the lengths of
Upper Asquewan Falls?
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