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Title: The Day of Days
An Extravaganza

Author: Louis Joseph Vance

Illustrator: Arthur William Brown

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Language: English

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THE DAY OF DAYS

BY LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE

THE DAY OF DAYS
THE DESTROYING ANGEL
THE BANDBOX
CYNTHIA-OF-THE-MINUTE
NO MAN'S LAND
THE FORTUNE HUNTER
THE POOL OF FLAME
THE BRONZE BELL
THE BLACK BAG
THE BRASS BOWL
THE PRIVATE WAR
TERENCE O'ROURKE

[Illustration: "What I want to say is--will you be my guest at the
theatre tonight?" FRONTISPIECE.]

THE DAY OF DAYS

_AN EXTRAVAGANZA_

BY

LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE

AUTHOR OF "THE BRASS BOWL," "THE BLACK BAG," "THE BANDBOX," "THE
DESTROYING ANGEL," ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

1913

_Copyright, 1912, 1913_,
BY LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE.

_All rights reserved, including those of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian._

Published, February, 1913
Reprinted, March, 1913

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE DUB
II. INSPIRATION
III. THE GLOVE COUNTER
IV. A LIKELY STORY
V. THE COMIC SPIRIT
VI. SPRING TWILIGHT
VII. AFTERMATH
VIII. WHEELS OF CHANCE
IX. THE PLUNGER
X. UNDER FIRE
XI. BURGLARY UNDER ARMS
XII. THE LADY OF THE HOUSE
XIII. RESPECTABILITY
XIV. WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
XV. SUCH STUFF AS PLOTS ARE MADE OF
XVI. BEELZEBUB
XVII. IN A BALCONY
XVIII. THE BROOCH
XIX. NEMESIS
XX. NOVEMBER
XXI. THE SORTIE
XXII. TOGETHER
XXIII. PERCEVAL UNASHAMED

ILLUSTRATIONS

"What I want to say is--will you be my guest at the theatre tonight?"

"You are the one woman in a thousand who knows enough to look before
she shoots!"

Facing her, he lifted his scarlet visor.

He was Red November.

THE DAY OF DAYS

I

THE DUB

"Smell," P. Sybarite mused aloud....

For an instan