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Title: The Price

Author: Francis Lynde

Release Date: October 4, 2006 [EBook #19462]

Language: English

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THE PRICE

BY

FRANCIS LYNDE

AUTHOR OF
THE TAMING OF RED BUTTE WESTERN, ETC.

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NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Published by Arrangement with Charles Scribner's Sons

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published May, 1911

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To

MR. LATHROP BROCKWAY BULLENE

SOLE FRIEND OF MY BOYHOOD, WHO WILL RECALL BETTER
THAN ANY THE YOUTHFUL MORAL AND SOCIAL SEED-TIME
WHICH HAS LED TO THIS LATER HARVESTING OF CONCLUSION,
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. AT CHAUDIERE'S 1

II. SPINDRIFT 9

III. THE RIGHT OF MIGHT 16

IV. _IO TRIUMPHE!_ 26

V. THE _BELLE JULIE_ 34

VI. THE DECK-HAND 44

VII. GOLD OF TOLOSA 53

VIII. THE CHAIN-GANG 59

IX. THE MIDDLE WATCH 68

X. QUICKSANDS 75

XI. THE ANARCHIST 84

XII. MOSES ICHTHYOPHAGUS 94

XIII. GRISWOLD EMERGENT 110

XIV. PHILISTIA 116

XV. THE GOTHS AND VANDALS 126

XVI. GOOD SAMARITANS 143

XVII. GROPINGS 154

XVIII. THE ZWEIBUND 165

XIX. LOSS AND GAIN 175

XX. THE CONVALESCENT 187

XXI. BROFFIN'S EQUATION 201

XXII. IN THE BURGLAR-PROOF 218

XXIII. CONVERGING ROADS 234

XXIV. THE FORWARD LIGHT 248

XXV. THE BRIDGE OF JEHENNAM 260

XXVI. PITFALLS 274

XXVII. IN THE SHA