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THE DAY OF THE DOG

by

GEORGE BARR MCCUTCHEON
Author of "Grauslark"
"The Sherrods etc"

With Illustrations by
Harrison Fisher
and decorations by
Margaret & Helen Maitland Armstrong

New York
1904




ILLUSTRATIONS


  SWALLOW (in color) Frontispiece
  CROSBY DRIVES TO THE STATION
  THE HANDS HAD GONE TO THEIR DINNER
  THE BIG RED BARN
  THE TWO BOYS
  MRS. DELANCY AND MRS. AUSTIN
  MR. AUSTIN
  MRS. DELANCY PLEADS WITH SWALLOW
  THEY EXAMINE THE DOCUMENTS
  "SHE DELIBERATELY SPREAD OUT THE PAPERS ON THE BEAM" (in color)
  SWALLOW
  SHE WATCHES HIM DESCEND INTO DANGER
  MR. CROSBY SHOWS SWALLOW A NEW TRICK
  "SWALLOW'S CHUBBY BODY SHOT SQUARELY THROUGH THE OPENING" (in color)
  THE MAN WITH THE LANTERN
  MR. HIGGINS
  "HE WAS SPLASHING THROUGH THE SHALLOW BROOK" (in color)
  HE CARRIES HER OVER THE BROOK
  MRS. HIGGINS
  THEY ENJOY MRS. HIGGINS'S GOOD SUPPER
  LONESOMEVILLE
  THE DEPUTY SHERIFF
  CROSBY AND THE DEPUTY
  MRS. DELANCY FALLS ASLEEP
  THEY GO TO THE THEATRE
  "'GOOD  HEAVENS!' 'WHAT IS IT?' HE  CRIED. 'YOU ARE NOT MARRIED,
      ARE YOU?'"
  (in color)
  "CROSBY WON BOTH SUITS"




THE DAY OF THE DOG

PART I


"I'll catch the first train back this evening, Graves. Wouldn't go down
there if it were not absolutely necessary; but I have just heard that
Mrs. Delancy is to leave for New York to-night, and if I don't see her
to-day there will be a pack of troublesome complications. Tell Mrs.
Graves she can count me in on the box party to-night."

"We'll need you, Crosby. Don't miss the train."

[Illustration: Crosby Drives to the Station]

"I'll be at the station an hour before the train leaves. Confound it,
it's a mean trip down there--three hours through the rankest kind of
scenery and three hours back. She's visiting in the country