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Title: The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure

Author: Rex Beach

Release Date: April 23, 2010 [EBook #32101]

Language: English

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_The Crimson Gardenia_

_and Other Tales of Adventure_

BY REX BEACH

AUTHOR OF "HEART OF THE SUNSET" "THE SPOILERS" ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

THE CRIMSON GARDENIA AND OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE
Copyright, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1916, by Harper & Brothers
Copyright, 1910, 1913, by Cosmopolitan Magazine
Copyright, 1906, by The Metropolitan Magazine Co.
Printed in the United States of America
Published April, 1916

[Illustration: Her eyes flashed to the white gardenia on his breast,
then up to his own.]

CONTENTS

THE CRIMSON GARDENIA

ROPE'S END

INOCENCIO

THE WAG-LADY

"MAN PROPOSES--"

TOLD IN THE STORM

THE WEIGHT OF OBLIGATION

THE STAMPEDE

WHEN THE MAIL CAME IN

MCGILL

THE BRAND

ILLUSTRATIONS

HER EYES FLASHED TO THE WHITE GARDENIA ON HIS BREAST, THEN UP TO HIS OWN

AS FLOREAL ROSE FROM HIS FATHER'S BODY HE HEARD A SHOT AND SAW THE
SOLDIERS OF THE REPUBLIC CHARGING HIM

"TAKE YOUR HAND OFF THAT GUN, BARCLAY"

"BARCLAY WASN'T MORE 'N HALF DEAD, AND THE WOMAN FELL TO BEGGIN' FOR HIS
LIFE AGAIN"

THE CRIMSON GARDENIA

I

The royal yacht had anchored amid a thunder of cannon, and the king had
gone ashore. The city was bright with bunting; a thousand whistles blew.
Up through the festooned streets His Majesty was escorted between long
rows of blue-coated officers, behind which the eager crowds were massed
for mile upon mile. Thin wire cables were stretched along the curbs, to
hold the people back, but these threatened to snap before the weight of
the multitude.

In the neighborhood of the raised pavilion where the queen and her maid