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Title: Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck

Author: Allen Chapman

Release Date: November 18, 2004 [EBook #14083]

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Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck

Or

Working to Clear His Name

BY

ALLEN CHAPMAN

AUTHOR OF "TOM FAIRFIELD'S SCHOOLDAYS," "TOM FAIRFIELD AT SEA,"
"THE DAREWELL CHUMS SERIES," "BOYS OF PLUCK SERIES," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK

CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

Copyrighted 1913, by

CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

TOM FAIRFIELD'S PLUCK AND LUCK

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. AN INDIGNATION MEETING
II. BRAZEN DEFIANCE
III. THE ADVICE OF BRUCE
IV. HOW SAM TOLD IT
V. TOM DECIDES
VI. ON THE GRIDIRON
VII. A CROSS-COUNTRY RUN
VIII. LOST IN THE WOODS
IX. AN ANGRY FARMER
X. A HAY STACK FIRE
XI. HOT WORK
XII. ACCUSATIONS
XIII. THE POISONED HORSES
XIV. SAM HELLER'S EVIDENCE
XV. TOM'S SILENCE
XVI. TOM SEEKS CLEWS
XVII. THE EMPTY BOTTLE
XVIII. ON THE TRAIL
XIX. DISAPPOINTMENT
XX. MORE SEEKING
XXI. IN THE STORM
XXII. THE RAGGED MAN
XXIII. THE PURSUIT
XXIV. CORNERED
XXV. EXPLANATIONS

TOM FAIRFIELD'S PLUCK AND LUCK

CHAPTER I

AN INDIGNATION MEETING

"Well, well, by all that's good! If it isn't Tom Fairfield back again!
How are you, old man?"

"Oh, fine and dandy! My! but it's good to see the old place again,
Morse," and the tall, good-looking lad whom the other had greeted so
effusively held out his hand--a firm, brown hand that told of a summer
spent in the open.

"Any of our boys back, Morse?" went on Tom Fairfield, as he looked
around the campus of Elmwood Hall. "I thought I'd meet Bert Wilson or
Jack Fitch on my way up, but I missed 'em. How are you, anyhow?"

"Fit as a fiddle. Say, you're looking as if you had enjoyed your
vacation."

"I sure did! You're not looking bad yourself. Able to sit up and take
nourishment, I guess."

"You've struck it, T