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"Hell-o, Ford, where the blazes did you drop down from?" a welcoming voice yelled.
THE UPHILL CLIMB
BY
B. M. BOWER
AUTHOR OF
GOOD INDIAN,
CHIP, OF THE FLYING U, ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CHARLES M. RUSSELL
New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers
1913
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.--"Married! and I Don't Know Her Name!"
CHAPTER II.--Wanted: Information
CHAPTER III.--One Way to Drown Sorrow
CHAPTER V.--"I Can Spare this Particular Girl"
CHAPTER VI.--The Problem of Getting Somewhere
CHAPTER VII.--The Foreman of the Double Cross
CHAPTER VIII.--"I Wish You'd Quit Believing in Me!"
CHAPTER X.--In Which the Demon Opens and Eye and Yawns
CHAPTER XI.--"It's Going to Be an Uphill Climb!"
CHAPTER XII.--At Hand-Grips with the Demon
CHAPTER XIII.--A Plan Gone Wrong
CHAPTER XIV.--The Feminine Point of View
CHAPTER XVI.--To Find and Free a Wife
CHAPTER XVII.--What Ford Found at the Top
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"Hell-o, Ford, where the blazes did you drop down from?" a welcoming voice yelled.
She lifted her head and looked at him, and drew away.
Dick tottered upon the step and went off backward.