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The Cleverdale Mystery

The Cleverdale Mystery

by W. A. Wilkins

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Author
Wilkins, W. A.
Title
The Cleverdale Mystery; or, The Machine and Its Wheels: A Story of American Life
Credits
Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Sue Fleming and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Political corruption -- Fiction
Category
Text
eBook-No.
42333
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42333
Release Date
March 14, 2013
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE Cleverdale Mystery ; OR, THE MACHINE AND ITS WHEELS.
  2. 2.PREFACE.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.CHARACTERS.
  5. 5.CHAPTER I. — BEAUTIFUL LAKE GEORGE.
  6. 6.CHAPTER II. — A QUARTETTE OF SCHEMERS.
  7. 7.CHAPTER III. — TEMPEST-TOSSED LAKE GEORGE.
  8. 8.CHAPTER IV. — THE BOSS AND HIS AIDS.
  9. 9.CHAPTER V. — TO THE RESCUE.
  10. 10.CHAPTER VI. — A CAMP DINNER.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VII. — THE CRUEL THUNDERBOLT.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. — AFFAIRS AT CLEVERDALE.
  13. 13.CHAPTER IX. — THE CAUCUS.
  14. 14.CHAPTER X. — THE CRUELTY OF AMBITION.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XI. — THE CONVENTION.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XII. — A WICKED SCHEME.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. — DALEY'S STRENGTH WANES.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. — THE ELECTION.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XV. — GLOOMY FOREBODINGS.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. — THE PRINCE OF MANNIS MANOR.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. — SARGENT ENLISTED.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. — GEORGE AND FANNIE ALDEN.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XIX. — THE BURNING FACTORY.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XX. — THE SECRET MARRIAGE.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXI. — SPOILS! SPOILS!
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXII. — SAD FAREWELLS.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII. — EXILED FROM HOME AND FRIENDS.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXIV. — THE DISTRACTED WIFE.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXV. — THE CRUEL LETTER.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXVI. — A DIRTY JOB.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVII. — CLEVERDALE'S SORROW.
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXVIII. — AMONG THE HILLS OF COLORADO.
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXIX. — POOR MARY HARRIS.
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXX. — THE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXXI. — A REVELATION. — "A SAD TRAGEDY.
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXXII. — THE WANDERER'S RETURN.
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXXIII. — RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE.
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIV. — THE CLEVERDALE MYSTERY.
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXXV. — EPILOGUE—THE MACHINE AND ITS WHEELS.

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