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Title: The Coast of Chance

Author: Esther Chamberlain
Lucia Chamberlain

Illustrator: Clarence F. Underwood

Release Date: January 25, 2007 [EBook #20445]
Last updated: March 2, 2009

Language: English

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THE COAST OF CHANCE

_By_

ESTHER AND LUCIA CHAMBERLAIN

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

CLARENCE F. UNDERWOOD

[Illustration: FLORA GILSEY.]

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT 1908

THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

APRIL

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I THE VANISHING MYSTERY 1

II A NAME GOES ROUND A TABLE 24

III ENCOUNTERS ON PARADE 63

IV FLOWERS BY THE WAY 82

V ON GUARD 93

VI BLACK MAGIC 105

VII A SPELL IS CAST 129

VIII A SPARK OF HORROR 142

IX ILLUMINATION 162

X A LADY UNVEILED 175

XI THE MYSTERY TAKES HUMAN FORM 197

XII DISENCHANTMENT 213

XIII THRUST AND PARRY 216

XIV COMEDY CONVEYS A WARNING 231

XV A LADY IN DISTRESS 248

XVI THE HEART OF THE DILEMMA 285

XVII THE DEMIGOD 293

XVIII GOBLIN TACTICS 330

XIX THE FACE IN THE GARDEN 345

XX FLIGHT 361

XXI THE HOUSE OF QUIET 381

XXII CLARA'S MARKET 410

XXIII TOUCHE 422

XXIV THE COMIC MASK 435

XXV THE LAST ENCHANTMENT 451

THE COAST OF CHANCE

I

THE VANISHING MYSTERY

Flora Gilsey stood on the threshold of her dining-room. She had turned
her back on it. She swayed forward. Her bare