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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The King of Arcadia, by Francis Lynde 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: The King of Arcadia Author: Francis Lynde Release Date: July 31, 2010 [EBook #33306] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE KING OF ARCADIA *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan 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.) THE KING OF ARCADIA BY FRANCIS LYNDE Author of "A Romance in Transit," "The Quickening," etc. ILLUSTRATED CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK 1909 COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published February, 1909 To my daughter Dorothea, AMANUENSIS OF THE LOVING HEART AND WILLING HANDS IN ITS WRITING, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. [Illustration: "You must help me," she pleaded; "I cannot see the way a single step ahead."] CONTENTS I THE CRYPTOGRAM II THE TRIPPERS III THE REVERIE OF A BACHELOR IV ARCADY V "FIRE IN THE ROCK!" VI ELBOW CANYON VII THE POLO PLAYERS VIII CASTLE 'CADIA IX THE BRINK OF HAZARD X HOSKINS'S GHOST XI GUN PLAY XII THE RUSTLERS XIII THE LAW AND THE LADY XIV THE MAXIM XV _HOSPES ET HOSTIS_ XVI THE RETURN OF THE OMEN XVII THE DERRICK FUMBLES XVIII THE INDICTMENT XIX IN THE LABORATORY XX THE GEOLOGIST XXI MR. PELHAM'S GAME-BAG XXII A CRY IN THE NIGHT XXIII DEEP UNTO DEEP ILLUSTRATIONS "You must help me," she pleaded; "I cannot see the way a single step ahead." "Senor Ballar', I have biffo' to-day killed a man for that he spik to me like-a-that!" The muscles of his face were twitching, and he was breathing hard, like a spent runner. "There is my notion--and a striking example of Mexican fair play." THE KING OF ARCADIA I THE CRYPTOGRAM The strenuous rush of the day of suddenly changed plans was over, and with Gardiner, the assistant professor of geology, to bid him God-s
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