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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike, by Charles King 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.org Title: A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Author: Charles King Release Date: December 20, 2007 [EBook #23927] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A TAME SURRENDER *** Produced by Bryan Ness, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: In her dainty bathing-dress, Miss Allison's wings were discarded. Page 8.] A TAME SURRENDER _A STORY OF THE CHICAGO STRIKE_ By CAPTAIN CHARLES KING, U.S.A. AUTHOR OF "THE COLONEL'S DAUGHTER," "MARION'S FAITH," "CAPTAIN BLAKE," "A SOLDIER'S SECRET," "SERGEANT CROESUS," "CAPTAIN CLOSE," ETC. _ILLUSTRATED_ PHILADELPHIA J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1896 COPYRIGHT, 1895 AND 1896, BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. PRINTED BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A. ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE In her dainty bathing-dress, Miss Allison's wings were discarded _Frontispiece_. "May I trouble you for those despatches, Mr. Elmendorf?" 176 "All that space in there will be needed in five minutes from this time." 207 "Is it potent--only at Christmas?" 277 [Illustration] A TAME SURRENDER. CHAPTER I. She had met him the previous summer on the Rhine, and now "if they aren't engaged they might as well be," said her friends, "for he is her shadow wherever she goes." There was something characteristically inaccurate about that statement, for Miss Allison was rather undersized in one way and oversized in another; at least that, too, is what her friends said. She was not more than five feet in height nor less than five feet in breadth "measured from tip to tip of her wings," as her brother said. Miss Allison had wings,
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