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Title: The Seventh Noon

Author: Frederick Orin Bartlett

Release Date: January 24, 2007 [EBook #20429]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "Spring," she answered. "Just spring"
(missing from book)]

THE SEVENTH NOON

BY

FREDERICK ORIN BARTLETT

_Author of "The Web of the Golden Spider",
"Joan of the Alley," etc._

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

EDMUND FREDERICK

BOSTON

SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1910

By Small, Maynard & Company

(INCORPORATED)

Entered at Stationers' Hall

Two editions before publication, January, 1910

To

K. P. B. and K. J. B.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I THE BLACK DOG
II KING OF TO-DAY
III THE BEGINNING OF THE END
IV KISMET
V THE INNER WOODS
VI THE SHADOW ON THE PORTRAITS
VII THE ARSDALES
VIII THE MAN WHO KNEW
IX DAWN
X OUTSIDE THE HEDGE
XI A PARTING AND A MEETING
XII DISTRICT MESSENGER 3457
XIII THE SLEEPERS
XIV CONSEQUENCES
XV THE DERELICT
XVI THE FOURTH DAY
XVII AN INTERLUDE
XVIII THE MAKING OF A MAN
XIX A MIRACLE
XX A LONG NIGHT
XXI FACING THE SUN
XXII CLOUDS
XXIII WHEN THE DEAD AWAKE
XXIV THE GREATER MASTER
XXV THE SHADOW ON THE FLOOR
XXVI ON THE BRINK
XXVII THE END OF THE BEGINNING
XXVIII THE SEVENTH NOON

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Spring," she answered. "Just spring" . . . _Frontispiece_

"What, you, Miss Arsdale?"

As he studied her it seemed certain that she was
by no means enjoying herself in her present company

Facing her he faced the pendulum which ticked
out to him the cost of each new picture he had of her

He lowered the rails, and Miss Arsdale led the way

"The kid," he announced laconically. "What yuh think of him?"

At noon! At the seventh noon, the whistle was to blow!

The Seventh Noon

CHAPTER I

_The Black Dog_

"The right to die?"

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