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THE MISSOURIAN


“JACQUELINE”
“She was the spirit of the enigma, the very personification
of the Napoleonic sphinx”


The Missourian

By

EUGENE P. LYLE, Jr.

“In my predestin’d Plot of Dust and Soul.”

Omar

Illustrated by Ernest Haskell

 

 

New York

Doubleday, Page & Company

1905


Copyright, 1905, by

Doubleday, Page & Company

Published, August, 1905

All rights reserved, including that of translationinto
foreign languages, including the Scandinavian


To

MY TWO BEST FRIENDS

My Father and my Mother


CONTENTS
PART I. The Thorn in the Land of Roses
I.A Wilful Maid Arrives3
II.A Fra Diavolo in the Land of Roses11
III.The Violent End of a Terrible Bandit18
IV.La Luz, Blockade Runner27
V.The Storm Centre34
VI.A Bruising of Arms for Jacqueline45
VII.Swordsmanship in the Dark55
VIII.The Thoughts of Youth May Be Prodigiously Long Thoughts64
IX.Toll-Taking in the Huasteca69
X.The Brigand Chief80
XI.The Cossacks and Their Tiger Colonel89
XII.Pastime Passing Excellent98
XIII.Unregistered in Any Studbook...

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