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Title: The Mark of the Knife

Author: Clayton H. Ernst

Illustrator: Chase Emerson

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Language: English

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THE MARK OF THE KNIFE

BY CLAYTON H. ERNST

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHASE EMERSON

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1920

_Copyright, 1920_,
By LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved_

Published October, 1920

Norwood Press
Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co.
Norwood, Mass., U. S. A.

[Illustration: IN THEIR EYES, FOR THE TIME BEING AT LEAST, IT SURPASSED
THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE.]

CONTENTS

I THE NEWCOMER

II A BLEMISH

III A PLAN AND A GAME

IV TWO VISITS AND A THEFT

V TEENY-BITS' CHANCE

VI DISCOVERIES

VII ON THE EVE OF THE STRUGGLE

VIII STRANGE CAPTORS

IX THE GREAT GAME

X AT LINCOLN HALL

XI MYSTERIES IN PART EXPLAINED

XII A VISIT TO CHUAN KAI'S

XIII DAYS OF PLEASURE

XIV A TALE OF THE FAR EAST

ILLUSTRATIONS

In their eyes, for the time being at least, it surpassed the battle of
the Marne

At the beginning of the final quarter Coach Murray sent in Teeny-bits to
take the place of White

Only three of them had a chance to reach the Ridgley player

From the foot of the slide they mounted slowly, tracing backward the
five double tracks

THE MARK OF THE KNIFE

CHAPTER I

THE NEWCOMER

Ridgley School, with its white buildings set comfortably among the
maples and the oaks that crown the flat top of the hill a mile to the
west of the village of Hamilton, attracts and holds the attention of all
eyes that fall upon it. Partly perhaps because the dormitories and the
recreation halls fit into the landscape and do not jut boldly and
crudely above the trees--as so many buildings on hilltops do--there is
an air of hominess and informality about the place which