THE KING OF ARCADIA
BY FRANCIS LYNDE
Author of "A Romance in Transit," "The Quickening," etc.
ILLUSTRATED
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK
1909
Copyright, 1909, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published February, 1909
To my daughter Dorothea,
AMANUENSIS OF THE
LOVING HEART AND WILLING HANDS
IN ITS WRITING,
THIS BOOK
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.
"You must help me," she pleaded; "I cannot see the way asingle step ahead."
CONTENTS
I. The Cryptogram
II. The Trippers
III. The Reverie of a Bachelor
IV. Arcady
V. "Fire in the Rock!"
VI. Elbow Canyon
VII. The Polo Players
VIII. Castle 'Cadia
IX. The Brink of Hazard
X. Hoskins's Ghost
XI. Gun Play
XII. The Rustlers
XIII. The Law and the Lady
XIV. The Maxim
XV. Hospes et Hostis
XVI. The Return of the Omen
XVII. The Derrick Fumbles
XVIII. The Indictment
XIX. In the Laboratory
XX. The Geologist
XXI. Mr. Pelham's Game-Bag
XXII. A Cry in the Night
XXIII. Deep Unto Deep
ILLUSTRATIONS
"You must help me," she pleaded; "I cannot see the way a single stepahead."
"Señor Ballar', I have biffo' to-day killed a man for that he spik to melike-a-that!"
The muscles of his face were twitching, and he was breathing hard, likea spent runner.
"There is my notion—and a striking example of Mexican fair play."
THE KING OF ARCADIA
I
THE CRYPTOGRAM
The strenuous rush of the day of suddenly change