The Lighted Match

About this eBook

Author

Buck, Charles Neville, 1879-1957

Credits

Produced by David Garcia, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Kentuckiana Digital Library)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

18336

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18336

Release Date

May 7, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE LIGHTED MATCH — SHE HELD OUT HER HAND TO BENTON AND WATCHED, TRANCE-LIKE, HIS LOWERED HEAD AS HE BENT HIS LIPS TO HER FINGERS. — Copyright, 1911, by — W. J. WATT & COMPANY — Published May — PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y. — To K. du P.
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS — THE LIGHTED MATCH
4. 4.CHAPTER I — AN OMEN IS CONSTRUED
5. 5.CHAPTER II — BENTON PLAYS MAGICIAN
6. 6.CHAPTER III — THE MOON OVERHEARS — "PLEASE, SIR, DON'T STEP ON ME."
7. 7.CHAPTER IV — THE DOCTRINE ACCORDING TO JONESY
8. 8.CHAPTER V — IT IS DECIDED TO MASQUERADE
9. 9.CHAPTER VI — IN WHICH ROMEO BECOMES DROMIO
10. 10.CHAPTER VII — IN WHICH DROMIO BECOMES ROMEO
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII — THE PRINCESS CONSULTS JONESY
12. 12.CHAPTER IX — THE TOREADOR APPEARS
13. 13.CHAPTER X — OF CERTAIN TRANSPIRINGS AT A CAFÉ TABLE — HIS TEETH GLEAMED WHITE AS HE CONTEMPLATED THE LITTLE SPURT OF HISSING FLAME.
14. 14.CHAPTER XI — THE PASSING PRINCESS AND THE MISTAKEN COUNTESS
15. 15.CHAPTER XII — BENTON MUST DECIDE
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII — CONCERNING FAREWELLS AND WARNINGS
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV — COUNTESS AND CABINET NOIR JOIN FORCES
18. 18.CHAPTER XV — THE TOREADOR BECOMES AMBASSADOR
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI — THE AMBASSADOR BECOMES ADMIRAL
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII — BENTON CALLS ON THE KING
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII — IN WHICH THE SPHINX BREAKS SILENCE
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX — THE JACKAL TAKES THE TRAIL
23. 23.CHAPTER XX — THE DEATH Of ROMANCE IS DEPLORED
24. 24.CHAPTER XXI — NAPLES ASSUMES NEW BEAUTY
25. 25.CHAPTER XXII — THE SENTRY BOX ANSWERS THE KING'S QUERY
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII — "SCARABS OF A DEAD DYNASTY"
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV — IN WHICH KINGS AND COMMONERS DISCUSS LOVE
28. 28.CHAPTER XXV — ABDUL SAID BEY EFFECTS A RESCUE
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVI — IN A CURIO SHOP IN STAMBOUL.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVII — BENTON SAYS GOOD-BY
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVIII — JUSSERET MAKES A REPORT — THE END
32. 32.BIOGRAPHIES
33. 33.CHARLES NEVILLE BUCK
34. 34.PELHAM GRANVILLE WODEHOUSE

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