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Title: Jacqueline of Golden River

Author: H. M. Egbert

Illustrator: Ralph Pallen Coleman

Release Date: September 28, 2005 [EBook #16771]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: He went without a backward glance . . . and I knew what
the parting meant to him.]

JACQUELINE OF GOLDEN RIVER

BY

H. M. EGBERT

FRONTISPIECE

BY

RALPH PALLEN COLEMAN

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

GARDEN CITY ---------- NEW YORK

1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF

TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES

INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY THE FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY

CONTENTS

I. A DOG AND A DAMSEL
II. BACK IN THE ROOM
III. COVERING THE TRACKS
IV. SIMON LEROUX
V. M. LE CURE
VI. AT THE FOOT OF THE CLIFF
VII. CAPTAIN DUBOIS
VIII. DREAMS OF THE NIGHT
IX. THE FUNGUS
X. SNOW BLINDNESS
XI. THE CHATEAU
XII. UNDER THE MOUNTAINS
XIII. THE ROULETTE-WHEEL
XIV. SOME PLAIN SPEAKING
XV. WON--AND LOST
XVI. THE OLD ANGEL
XVII. LOUIS D'EPERNAY
XVIII. THE LITTLE DAGGER
XIX. THE HIDDEN CHAMBER
XX. AT SWORDS' POINTS
XXI. THE BAIT THAT LURED
XXII. SURRENDER
XXIII. LEROUX'S DIABLE
XXIV. FULL CONFESSION
XXV. THE END OF THE CHATEAU

JACQUELINE OF GOLDEN RIVER

CHAPTER I

A DOG AND A DAMSEL

As I sat on a bench in Madison Square after half past eleven in the
evening, at the end of one of those mild days that sometimes occur in
New York even at the beginning of December, a dog came trotting up to
me, stopped at my feet, and whined.

There is nothing remarkable in having a strange dog run to one nor in
seeing the creature rise on its hind legs and paw at you for notice and
a caress. Only, this happened to be an Eskimo dog.

It might have been mistaken for a collie or a sheepdog by nearly
everybody who saw it, though