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Title: Up the Forked River
Or, Adventures in South America

Author: Edward Sylvester Ellis

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Strange Adventure Series.--No. 2.

UP THE FORKED RIVER

Or,

Adventures in South America

by

SEWARD D. LISLE,

Author of "TEDDY AND TOWSER," etc., etc.

Illustrated

Philadelphia:
Henry T. Coates & Co.

Copyrighted, 1904,
by
Henry T. Coates & Co.

[Illustration: "I AM BETRAYED--SINK THE TUG."]

UP THE FORKED RIVER

OR

ADVENTURES IN SOUTH AMERICA

CHAPTER I.

Two friends were seated in the private office of Rowland & Starland,
Montgomery Street, San Francisco, not long ago, discussing a subject
in which both were much interested.

Each gentleman was past three-score, but they were well preserved, of
rugged health, well to do and prosperous. They had got on for many
years without so much as a shadow of difference between them. They had
made the tour of Europe together, had engaged in many an outing and
now as the evening of life was drawing on, they took matters with that
complacency and comfort which was creditable to their good sense and
which was warranted by their circumstances.

Mr. Thomas Starland, the junior partner, removed his cigar, leaned
back in his chair, and, looking kindly into the face of his friend,
said:

"Teddy, you came to California a number of years before I did."

The other, who was in a reminiscent mood, smoked in silence for a
minute or so, looking up to the ceiling, and, when he replied, it was
as if communin