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THE REAL ADVENTURE

A Novel

by

HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER

Illustrated by R.M. Crosby

Indianapolis
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers
Serial Version 1915
The Ridgway Company
Press of Braunworth & Co.
Bookbinders and Printers
Brooklyn, N.Y.

1916







[Illustration: "We can't talk here," he said. "We must go elsewhere."]




CONTENTS

BOOK I

THE GREAT ILLUSION

CHAPTER

    I A Point of Departure
   II Beginning an Adventure
  III Frederica's Plan and What Happened to It
   IV Rosalind Stanton Doesn't Disappear
    V The Second Encounter
   VI The Big Horse
  VII How It Struck Portia
 VIII Rodney's Experiment
   IX After Breakfast


BOOK II

LOVE AND THE WORLD

    I The Princess Cinderella
   II The First Question and an Answer to It
  III Where Did Rose Come In
   IV Long Circuits and Short
    V Rodney Smiled
   VI The Damascus Road
  VII How the Pattern Was Cut
 VIII A Birthday
   IX A Defeat
    X The Door That Was to Open
   XI