With Illustrations by CHARLES M. RUSSELL
New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers
1913
[Illustration: "Hell-o, Ford, where the blazes did you drop down from?"
a welcoming voice yelled. Frontispiece.]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I "Married! And I Don't Know Her Name!"
II Wanted: Information
III One Way to Drown Sorrow
IV Reaction
V "I Can Spare this Particular Girl"
VI The Problem of Getting Somewhere
VII The Foreman of the Double Cross
VIII "I Wish You'd Quit Believing in Me!"
IX Impressions
X In Which the Demon Opens an Eye and Yawns
XI "It's Going to Be an Uphill Climb!"
XII At Hand-Grips with the Demon
XIII A Plan Gone Wrong
XIV The Feminine Point of View
XV The Climb
XVI To Find and Free a Wife
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. (Frontispiece)
She lifted her head and looked at him, and drew away.
Dick tottered upon the step and went off backward.
"Ford, I'm no coquette," she said straightforwardly.
CHAPTER I
"Married! And I Don't Know Her Name!"
Ford lifted his arms above his head to yawn as does a man who has slept
too heavily, found his biceps stiffened and sore, and massaged them
gingerly with his finger-tips.
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