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The City of Numbered Days

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The City of Numbered Days, by Francis Lynde, Illustrated by Arthur E. Becher

Title: The City of Numbered Days

Author: Francis Lynde

Release Date: August 29, 2011 [eBook #37249]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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THE CITY OF NUMBERED DAYS

BY FRANCIS LYNDE

ILLUSTRATED BY
ARTHUR E. BECHER

 

 

 

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK 1914

Copyright, 1914, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published August, 1914


TO MY WIFE


"What would I do? A number of things." Page 91


CONTENTS

I. The Heptaderm 1
II. J. Wesley Crœsus 19
III. Sands of Pactolus 48
IV. A Fire of Little Sticks 66
V. Symptomatic 79
VI. Mirapolis 104
VII. The Speedway 119
VIII. Table Stakes 130
IX. Bedlam 145
X. Epochal 151
XI. The Feast of Hurrahs 178
XII. Quicksands 196
XIII. Flood Tide 208
XIV. The Abyss 232
XV. The Setting of the Ebb 244
XVI. The Man on the Bank 263
XVII. The Circean Cup 273
XVIII. Love's Crucible 284
XIX. The Sunset Gun 301
XX. The Terror 322

ILLUSTRATIONS

"What would I do? A number of things" Frontispiece
Brouillard had to look twice before he could attempt to classify her, and even then she baffled him 46
"It's all gone, little girl; it's all gone!" 242
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