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                      SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE

                       BY EARL DERR BIGGERS



Buccaneer Books
NEW YORK

Copyright 1913 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-66864




CONTENTS


CHAPTER

       I "WEEP NO MORE, MY LADY"

      II ENTER A LOVELORN HABERDASHER

     III BLONDES AND SUFFRAGETTES

      IV A PROFESSIONAL HERMIT APPEARS

       V THE MAYOR CASTS A SHADOW BEFORE

      VI GHOSTS OF THE SUMMER CROWD

     VII THE MAYOR BEGINS A VIGIL

    VIII MR. MAX TELLS A TALE OF SUSPICION

      IX MELODRAMA IN THE SNOW

       X THE COLD GRAY DAWN

      XI A FALSEHOOD UNDER THE PALMS

     XII WOE IN NUMBER SEVEN

    XIII THE EXQUISITE MR. HAYDEN

     XIV THE SIGN OF THE OPEN WINDOW

      XV TABLE TALK

     XVI A MAN FROM THE DARK

    XVII THE PROFESSOR SUMS UP

   XVIII A RED CARD

     XIX EXEUNT OMNES, AS SHAKESPEARE HAS IT

      XX THE ADMIRAL'S GAME

     XXI THE MAYOR IS WELCOMED HOME

    XXII THE USUAL THING




SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE




CHAPTER I

"WEEP NO MORE, MY LADY"


A young woman was crying bitterly in the waiting-room of the railway
station at Upper Asquewan Falls, New York.

A beautiful young woman? That is exactly what