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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Trumpeter Swan, by Temple Bailey, Illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens
Title: The Trumpeter Swan
Author: Temple Bailey
Release Date: April 21, 2006 [eBook #18219]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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E-text prepared by Al Haines
[Frontispiece: "When I am married will you sound your trumpet high up near the moon?"]
THE TRUMPETER SWAN
BY
TEMPLE BAILEY
AUTHOR OF
THE TIN SOLDIER, CONTRARY MARY, MISTRESS ANNE, ETC.
"A sound from the clouds shall call thee from this earth."
ILLUSTRATED BY
ALICE BARBER STEPHENS
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT 1920 BY
THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY
The Trumpeter Swan
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | |
| I. | A MAJOR AND TWO MINORS |
| II. | STUFFED BIRDS |
| III. | A WOLF IN THE FOREST |
| IV. | RAIN AND RANDY'S SOUL |
| V. | LITTLE SISTER |
| VI. | GEORGIE-PORGIE |
| VII. | MADEMOISELLE MIDAS |
| VIII. | ANCESTORS |
| IX. | "T. BRANCH" |
| X. | A GENTLEMAN'S LIE |
| XI. | WANTED--A PEDESTAL |
| XII. | INDIAN--INDIAN |
| XIII. | THE WHISTLING SALLY |
| XIV. | THE DANCER ON THE MOOR |
| XV. | THE TRUMPETER SWAN |
| XVI. | THE CONQUEROR |
ILLUSTRATIONS
"When I am married will you sound your trumpet high up
near the moon?" . . . . . . Frontispiece
"It's so heavenly to have you home."
Becky drew a sharp breath--then faced Dalton squarely--"I am going
to marry Randy."
"Oh, oh,", she whispered, "you don't know how I have wanted you."
THE TRUMPETER SWAN
CHAPTER I
A MAJOR AND TWO MINORS
I
It had rained all night, one of the summer rains that, beginning in a thunder-storm in Washington, had continued in a steaming drizzle until morning.
There were only four passengers in the sleeper, men all of them—two in adjoining sections in the middle of the car, a third in the drawing-room, a fourth an intermittent occupant of a berth at the end. They had gone to bed unaware of the estate or circumstance of their fellow-travellers, and had waked to find the train delayed by washouts, and side-tracked until more could be learned of the condition of the road.
The man in the drawing-room shone, in the few glimpses that the others had of him, with an effulgence which was dazzling. His valet, the intermittent sleeper in the end berth, was a smug little soul, with a small