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Title: Dave Porter and His Double
The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune

Author: Edward Stratemeyer

Illustrator: Walter S. Rogers

Release Date: November 2, 2009 [EBook #30394]

Language: English

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Edward Stratemeyer]

[Illustration: THE TEAM LEFT THE ROADWAY, AND THE NEXT INSTANT HAD
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Dave Porter Series

DAVE PORTER AND HIS DOUBLE

OR

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE BASSWOOD FORTUNE

BY

EDWARD STRATEMEYER

Author of "Dave Porter at Oak Hall," "The Old Glory Series," "Colonial
Series," "Pan-American Series," "Soldiers of Fortune Series," etc.

_ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER S. ROGERS_

BOSTON

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

Published, August, 1916

Copyright, 1916,

By Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.

_All rights reserved_

DAVE PORTER AND HIS DOUBLE

Norwood Press

BERWICK & SMITH CO.

NORWOOD, MASS.

U. S. A.

PREFACE

"DAVE PORTER AND HIS DOUBLE" is a complete story in itself, but forms
the twelfth volume in a line issued under the general title of "Dave
Porter Series."

This series was begun some years ago by the publication of "Dave
Porter at Oak Hall," in which my young readers were introduced to a
wide-awake American lad at a typical American boarding-school.

The publication of this volume was followed by "Dave Porter in the
South Seas," to which portion of our globe the lad journeyed to clear
up a question concerning his parentage. Next came "Dave Porter's
Return to School," telling of additional happenings at Oak Hall; "Dave
Porter in the Far North," where he went on a second journey looking
for his father; "Dave Porter and His Classmates," in which our young
hero showed what he could do under most trying ci