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Title: The Lighted Match

Author: Charles Neville Buck

Illustrator: R. F. Schabelitz

Release Date: May 7, 2006 [EBook #18336]

Language: English

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THE LIGHTED MATCH

[Illustration: SHE HELD OUT HER HAND TO BENTON AND WATCHED,
TRANCE-LIKE, HIS LOWERED HEAD AS HE BENT HIS LIPS TO HER FINGERS.]

The
LIGHTED MATCH

by

CHARLES NEVILLE BUCK

_Author of_

The Key to Yesterday

_Illustrations_
by
R. F. Schabelitz

W. J. Watt & Company
Publishers New York

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY
W. J. WATT & COMPANY

_Published May_

PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.

To K. du P.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I AN OMEN IS CONSTRUED 9

II BENTON PLAYS MAGICIAN 17

III THE MOON OVERHEARS 28

IV THE DOCTRINE ACCORDING TO JONESY 40

V IT IS DECIDED TO MASQUERADE 49

VI IN WHICH ROMEO BECOMES DROMIO 56

VII IN WHICH DROMIO BECOMES ROMEO 70

VIII THE PRINCESS CONSULTS JONESY 82

IX THE TOREADOR APPEARS 92

X OF CERTAIN TRANSPIRINGS AT A CAFE TABLE 102

XI THE PASS