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Title: Anything Once

Author: Douglas Grant

Illustrator: Paul Stahr

Release Date: December 9, 2009 [EBook #30640]

Language: English

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[Illustration: He drank deeply, then struggled to a sitting posture,
his face whitening beneath its tan.]

ANYTHING ONCE

BY DOUGLAS GRANT

AUTHOR OF "THE SINGLE TRACK," "BOOTY," "THE FIFTH ACE," ETC.

Frontispiece by PAUL STAHR

[Illustration]

NEW YORK

W. J. WATT & COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY W. J. WATT & COMPANY

PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO.

BOOK MANUFACTURERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. A Roadside Meeting 1
II. Partners 17
III. The Vendor Of Everything 41
IV. Under The Big Top 55
V. Concerning An Omelet 69
VI. The Red Note-Book 83
VII. Revelations 99
VIII. Journey's End 118
IX. The Long, Long Trail 138

ANYTHING ONCE

CHAPTER I

A Roadside Meeting

The white dust, which lay thick upon the wide road between rolling
fields of ripened grain, rose in little spirals from beneath the heavy
feet of the plodding farm-horses drawing the empty hay-wagon, and had
scarcely settled again upon the browning goldenrod and fuzzy milkweed
which bordered the rail fences on either side when Ebb Fischel's
itinerant butcher-jitney rattled past. Ebb Fischel's eyes were usually
as sharp as the bargains he drove, but the dust must have obscured his
vision. Otherwise he would have seen the man lying motionless beside the
road, with his cap in the ditch and the pitiless sun of harvest-time
caking the blood which had streamed from an ugly cut upon his tem