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"I'VE GOT YOU NOW." (Frontispiece. See page 108.)

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by the ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

TO MARION, MY WIFE.

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PREFACE.

I have long been curious to know whether or not I could write a pretty good story, and now that the publishers are about to send the usual press copies of this book to the critics I am in a fair way to have my curiosity on that point satisfied.

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CONTENTS.

• CHAPTER I.—Mr. Pagebrook gets up and Calls an Ancient Lawgiver. 11
• CHAPTER II.—Mr. Pagebrook is Invited to Breakfast. 22
• CHAPTER III.—Mr. Pagebrook Eats his Breakfast. 26
• CHAPTER IV.—Mr. Pagebrook Learns something about the Customs of the Country. 35
• CHAPTER V.—Mr. Pagebrook Makes Some Acquaintances. 42
• CHAPTER VI.—Mr. Pagebrook Makes a Good Impression. 48
• CHAPTER VII.—Mr. Pagebrook Learns Several Things. 54
• CHAPTER VIII.—Miss Sudie Makes an Apt Quotation. 61
• CHAPTER IX.—Mr. Pagebrook Meets an Acquaintance. 65
• CHAPTER X.—Chiefly Concerning "Foggy." 70
• CHAPTER XI.—Mr. Pagebrook Rides. 79
• CHAPTER XII.—Mr. Pagebrook Dines with his Cousin Sarah Ann. 84
• CHAPTER XIII.—Concerning the Rivulets of Blue Blood. 95
• CHAPTER XIV.—Mr. Pagebrook Manages to be in at the Death. 102
• CHAPTER XV.—Some very Unreasonable Conduct. 109
• CHAPTER XVI.—What Occurred Next Morning. 118
• CHAPTER XVII.—In which Mr. Pagebrook Bids his Friends Good-by. 123
• CHAPTER XVIII.—Mr. Pagebrook Goes to Work. 128
• CHAPTER XIX.—A Short Chapter, not very interesting, perhaps, but of some Importance in the Story, as the Reader will probably discover after awhile. 134
• CHAPTER XX.—Cousin Sarah Ann Takes Robert's Part. 138
• CHAPTER XXI.—Miss Barksdale Expresses some Opinions. 143
• CHAPTER XXII.—Mr. Sharp Does His Duty. 150
• CHAPTER XXIII.—Mr. Pagebrook Takes a Lesson in the Law. 158
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• CHAPTER XXIV.—Mr. Pagebrook Cuts himself loose from the Past and Plans a Future. 163
• CHAPTER XXV.—In which Miss Sudie Acts very Unreasonably. 166
• CHAPTER XXVI.—In which Miss Sudie Adopts the Socratic Method. 175
• CHAPTER XXVII.—Mr. Pagebrook Accepts an Invitation to Lunch and another Invitation. 181
• CHAPTER XXVIII.—Major Pagebrook asserts himself. 188
• CHAPTER XXIX.—Mr. Barksdale, the Younger, Goes upon a Journey. 198
• CHAPTER XXX.—The younger Mr. Barksdale Asks to be put upon His Oath. 204
• CHAPTER XXXI.—Mr. William Barksdale Explains. 208
• CHAPTER XXXII.—Which Is also The Last. 216

ILLUSTRATIONS.

BY M. WOOLF.

• "I've got You Now." Frontispiece
• Mr. Robert Pagebrook was "Blue." 13
• "I fall at once into a Chronic State of Washing up Things." 57
• "Foggy." 73
• Cousin Sarah Ann 87
• The Rivulets of Blue Blood 98
• Miss Sudie declares herself "so glad." 116
• "Let him Serve it at once, then." 156
• "Very well, then." 194
• "I'm as Proud and as Glad as a Boy with Red Morocco Tops to his Boots." 218