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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
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