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                             THE KING OF ARCADIA

                               BY FRANCIS LYNDE

           Author of "A Romance in Transit," "The Quickening," etc.


ILLUSTRATED

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK
1909

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published February, 1909

     To my daughter Dorothea,
         AMANUENSIS OF THE
  LOVING HEART AND WILLING HANDS
          IN ITS WRITING,
             THIS BOOK
    IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.




[Illustration: "You must help me," she pleaded; "I cannot see the way a
single step ahead."]




CONTENTS


I THE CRYPTOGRAM

II THE TRIPPERS

III THE REVERIE OF A BACHELOR

IV ARCADY

V "FIRE IN THE ROCK!"

VI ELBOW CANYON

VII THE POLO PLAYERS

VIII CASTLE 'CADIA

IX THE BRINK OF HAZARD

X HOSKINS'S GHOST

XI GUN PLAY

XII THE RUSTLERS

XIII THE LAW AND THE LADY

XIV THE MAXIM

XV _HOSPES ET HOSTIS_

XVI THE RETURN OF THE OMEN

XVII THE DERRICK FUMBLES

XVIII THE INDICTMENT

XIX IN THE LABORATORY

XX THE GEOLOGIST

XXI MR. PELHAM'S GAME-BAG

XXII A CRY