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Title: The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton

Author: Wardon Allan Curtis

Release Date: January 28, 2009 [EBook #27917]

Language: English

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_The_ Strange Adventures _of_ Mr. Middleton

BY

WARDON ALLAN CURTIS

CHICAGO
HERBERT S. STONE & COMPANY

MCMIII

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY
HERBERT S. STONE & COMPANY
CHICAGO

CONTENTS

The Manner in Which Mr. Edward Middleton Encounters the Emir
Achmed Ben Daoud
The Adventure of the Virtuous Spinster
What Befell Mr. Middleton Because of the Second Gift of the Emir
The Adventure of William Hicks
What Befell Mr. Middleton Because of the Third Gift of the Emir
The Adventure of Norah Sullivan and the Student of Heredity
What Befell Mr. Middleton Because of the Fourth Gift of the Emir
The Pleasant Adventures of Dr. McDill
What Befell Mr. Middleton Because of the Fifth Gift of the Emir
The Adventure of Miss Clarissa Dawson
What Befell Mr. Middleton Because of the Sixth Gift of the Emir
The Unpleasant Adventure of the Faithless Woman
What Befell Mr. Middleton Because of the Seventh Gift of
the Emir
The Adventure of Achmed Ben Daoud
What Befell Mr. Middleton Because of the Eighth and Last Gift of
the Emir

_The_ Strange Adventures _of_ Mr. Middleton

_The Manner in Which Mr. Edward Middleton Encounters the Emir Achmed
Ben Daoud._

It was a lowering and gloomy night in the early part of the present
century. Mr. Edward Middleton, a gallant youth, who had but lately
passed his twenty-third year, was faring northward along the southern
part of that famous avenue of commerce, Clark Street, in the city of
Chicago, wending his way toward the emporium of Mr. Marks Cohen.
Suddenly the rain which the cloudy heaven had been promising for many
hours, began to descend in great scattered drops that presaged a hea