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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton, by Wardon Allan Curtis This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Author: Wardon Allan Curtis Release Date: January 28, 2009 [EBook #27917] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STRANGE ADVENTURES MR. MIDDLETON *** Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net _The_ Strange Adventures _of_ Mr. Middleton BY WARDON ALLAN CURTIS CHICAGO HERBERT S. STONE & COMPANY MCMIII COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY HERBERT S. STONE & COMPANY CHICAGO CONTENTS The Manner in Which Mr. Edward Middleton Encounters the Emir Achmed Ben Daoud The Adventure of the Virtuous Spinster What Befell Mr. Middleton Because of the Second Gift of the Emir The Adventure of William Hicks What Befell Mr. Middleton Because of the Third Gift of the Emir The Adventure of Norah Sullivan and the Student of Heredity What Befell Mr. Middleton Because of the Fourth Gift of the Emir The Pleasant Adventures of Dr. McDill What Befell Mr. Middleton Because of the Fifth Gift of the Emir The Adventure of Miss Clarissa Dawson What Befell Mr. Middleton Because of the Sixth Gift of the Emir The Unpleasant Adventure of the Faithless Woman What Befell Mr. Middleton Because of the Seventh Gift of the Emir The Adventure of Achmed Ben Daoud What Befell Mr. Middleton Because of the Eighth and Last Gift of the Emir _The_ Strange Adventures _of_ Mr. Middleton _The Manner in Which Mr. Edward Middleton Encounters the Emir Achmed Ben Daoud._ It was a lowering and gloomy night in the early part of the present century. Mr. Edward Middleton, a gallant youth, who had but lately passed his twenty-third year, was faring northward along the southern part of that famous avenue of commerce, Clark Street, in the city of Chicago, wending his way toward the emporium of Mr. Marks Cohen. Suddenly the rain which the cloudy heaven had been promising for many hours, began to descend in great scattered drops that presaged a hea
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