The Real Man

BY FRANCIS LYNDE

ILLUSTRATED BY
ARTHUR E. BECHER

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK :::::::::: 1915

Copyright, 1915, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published August, 1915

TO
THOSE FRIENDS OF UNACQUAINTANCE
AMONG HIS READERS
WHO FROM TIME TO TIME EXPRESS, THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF
KINDLY AND HEART-WARMING LETTERS,
THEIR APPRECIATIVE SYMPATHY AND APPROVAL,
THIS BOOK
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
WITH GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FROM
THE AUTHOR

There was time only for a mighty heave and shove.

CONTENTS

I. Host and Guest
II. Metastasis
III. The Hobo
IV. The High Hills
V. The Specialist
VI. The Twig
VII. A Notice to Quit
VIII. Timanyoni Ditch
IX. Relapsings
X. The Sick Project
XI. When Greek Meets Greek
XII. The Rocket and the Stick
XIII. The Narrow World
XIV. A Reprieve
XV. "Sweet Fortune's Minion"
XVI. Broken Threads
XVII. A Night of Fiascos
XVIII. A Chance to Hedge
XIX. Two Women
XX. Tucker Jibbey
XXI. At Any Cost
XXII. The Megalomaniac
XXIII. The Arrow to the Mark
XXIV. A Little Leaven
XXV. The Pace-Setter
XXVI. The Colonel's "Defi"
XXVII. Two Witnesses
XXVIII. The Straddler
XXIX. The Flesh-Pots of Egypt
XXX. A Strong Man Armed
XXXI. A Race to the Swift
XXXII. Freedom
XXXIII. In Sunrise Gulch

ILLUSTRATIONS

There was time only for a mighty heave and shove

In a flash Smith knew what he had done