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Title: The Missourian

Author: Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

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THE MISSOURIAN

[Illustration: "JACQUELINE"
"She was the spirit of the enigma, the very personification of the
Napoleonic sphinx"]

THE MISSOURIAN

by

EUGENE P. LYLE, Jr.

"In my predestin'd Plot of Dust and Soul."--Omar

Illustrated by Ernest Haskell

New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1905

Copyright, 1905, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, August, 1905

All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian

To

MY TWO BEST FRIENDS

My Father and my Mother

CONTENTS

PART I.

THE THORN IN THE LAND OF ROSES

I. A Wilful Maid Arrives 3
II. A Fra Diavolo in the Land of Roses 11
III. The Violent End of a Terrible Bandit 18
IV. _La Luz_, Blockade Runner 27
V. The Storm Centre 34
VI. A Bruising of Arms for Jacqueline 45
VII. Swordsmanship in the Dark 55
VIII. The Thoughts of Youth May Be
Prodigiously Long Thoughts 64
IX. Toll-Taking in the Huasteca 69
X. The Brigand Chief 80
XI. The Cossacks and Their Tiger Colonel 89
XII. Pastime Passing Excellent 98
XIII. Unregistered in Any Studbook 108
XIV. The Herald of the F