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Title: Once Upon A Time

Author: Richard Harding Davis

Release Date: October 19, 2005 [EBook #16908]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "Then, how did you suppose your sister was going to read
it?"]

ONCE UPON A TIME

BY

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

ILLUSTRATED

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK 1912

Copyright, 1910, by

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

TO

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS

CONTENTS

A Question of Latitude 1

The Spy 37

The Messengers 73

A Wasted Day 97

A Charmed Life 125

The Amateur 151

The Make-Believe Man 193

Peace Manoeuvres 247

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Then, how did you suppose your sister was going to
read it?" _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

Schnitzel was smiling to himself 52

"Schnitzel, you certainly are a magnificent liar" 58

"I think," said Ainsley, "they have lost their way" 90

"Was it you," demanded young Andrews, in a puzzled
tone, "or your brother who tried to knife
me?" 108

Mr. Thorndike stood irresolute, and then sank back
into his chair 116

"Do I look as easy as that, or are you just naturally
foolish?" 182

She was easily the prettiest and most striking-looking
woman in the room 188

A QUESTION OF LATITUDE

Of the school of earnest young writers at whom the word muckraker had
been thrown in opprobrium, and by whom it had been caught up as a title
of honor, Everett was among the younge