THE
Cleverdale Mystery;
OR,
THE MACHINE AND ITS WHEELS.
A STORY OF AMERICAN LIFE.
BY
W. A. WILKINS,
EDITOR OF "THE WHITEHALL (N. Y.) TIMES."
NEW YORK:
FORDS, HOWARD, & HULBERT.
1882.
Copyright, 1882,
By W. A. WILKINS.
All rights reserved.
PREFACE.
In presenting this volume to the public, the author hopes to impartinformation to some; reflect their own character to others; possiblypoint a moral, and by the tale interest the reader.
The warp of the fabric is reality, the woof fiction, the coloringdomestic.
Awaiting the verdict,
Respectfully,
THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |||
| CHAPTER | I. | —Beautiful Lake George, | 9 |
| " | II. | —A Quartette of Schemers, | 18 |
| " | III. | —Tempest-tossed Lake George, | 26 |
| " | IV. | —The Boss and His Aids, | 33 |
| " | V. | —To the Rescue, | 44 |
| " | VI. | —The Camp Dinner, | 52 |
| " | VII. | —The Cruel Thunderbolt, | 58 |
| " | VIII. | —Affairs at Cleverdale, | 65 |
| " | IX. | ...