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Title: A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike

Author: Charles King

Release Date: December 20, 2007 [EBook #23927]

Language: English

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[Illustration: In her dainty bathing-dress, Miss Allison's wings were
discarded.
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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,