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                          MISS DIVIDENDS

                             A Novel

                  BY ARCHIBALD CLAVERING GUNTER

    AUTHOR OF "MR. BARNES OF NEW YORK," "MR. POTTER OF TEXAS," "THAT
    FRENCHMAN!" "MISS NOBODY OF NOWHERE," "SMALL BOYS IN BIG BOOTS," "A
    FLORIDA ENCHANTMENT," ETC., ETC.


    NEW YORK
    THE HOME PUBLISHING COMPANY
    3 EAST FOURTEENTH STREET
    1892

    COPYRIGHT, 1892,
    BY A. C. GUNTER.

    _All rights reserved._

    Press of J. J. Little & Co.
    Astor Place, New York




CONTENTS.


    BOOK I. THE GIRL FROM NEW YORK.

    I.--Mr. West                                                     7

    II.--Miss East                                                  17

    III.--Her Father's Friend                                       30

    IV.--Mr. Ferdie begins his Western Investigations               38

    V.--The Grand Island Eating-House                               54

    VI.--Mr. Ferdie Discovers a Vigilante                           66

    VII.--What Manner of Man is This?                               77


    BOOK II. A CURIOUS CLUB MAN.

    VIII.--The City of Saints                                      101

    IX.--The Ball in Salt Lake                                     115

    X.--"Papa!"                                                    135

    XI.--"For Business Purposes"                                   153

    XII.--A Daughter of the Church                                 166

    XIII.--The Love of a Bishop                                    179

    XIV.--A Rare Club Story                                       