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Title: The King of Arcadia

Author: Francis Lynde

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Language: English

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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