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About this eBook

Author

Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William), 1865-1933

Title

Police!!!

Credits

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Detective and mystery stories, American

Category

Text

eBook-No.

18515

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18515

Release Date

June 6, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.POLICE!!!
2. 2.BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS — ILLUSTRATED BY HENRY HUTT — NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1915 — "Dainty noses to the wind, their beautiful eyes wide and alert."
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.FOREWORD
5. 5.PREFACE
6. 6.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
7. 7.POLICE!!!
8. 8.THE THIRD EYE — "Climbing about among the mangroves above the water" — "To see him feed made me sick." — "'Kemper!' I shouted.... 'He is one of them! Knock him flat with your riflestock!'"
9. 9.THE IMMORTAL
10. 10.I — "'Say, listen, Bo—I mean, Prof. I've got the goods.'"
11. 11.II — "He played on his concertina ... on the chance that the music might lure a cave-girl down the hill." — "Moving warily and gracefully amid the great coquina slabs." — "I collapsed into the arms of the nicest looking one."
12. 12.THE LADIES OF THE LAKE
13. 13.I
14. 14.II — "The heavy artillery was evidently frightened." — "Somebody had swooned in his arms, too."
15. 15.III — "'If you keep me up this tree and starve me to death it will be murder.'" — "Then a horrible thing occurred."
16. 16.ONE OVER
17. 17.I
18. 18.III
19. 19.IV — "I felt so sorry for her that I kissed her."
20. 20.V — "Out of the mud rose five or six dozen mammoths ." — "Dr. Delmour used up every film in the camera to record the scientific triumph of the ages." — "'Everybody has put one over on me!' I shrieked."
21. 21.UN PEU D'AMOUR — "Miss Blythe had carried to her father a large bucket of lettuce leaves." — "'Don't let it bite!' cried the girl. 'Be careful, Mr. Smith!'" — "Kicked over the bucket of salad, and began to dance with rage." — "'It's a worm!' shrieked Blythe."
22. 22.THE EGGS OF THE SILVER MOON — "'Which way do you usually go home?' I asked." — "'This little caterpillar ... is certain to find those leaves.'"

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