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THE GREAT GAME 148
XII. A WELL-SPRING IN THE DESERT 165
XIII. THE LIEGEMAN 178
XIV. BARRIERS INVISIBLE 193
XV. SWORD-PLAY 203
XVI. THE SAFE-BLOWER 213
XVII. ON THE KNEES OF THE HIGH GODS 230
XVIII. THE CHASM 241
XIX. A COG IN THE WHEEL 256
XX. A STONE FOR BREAD 264
XXI. THE UNDER-DOG 280
XXII. THE ICONOCLAST 293
XXIII. A CRY IN THE NIGHT 302
XXIV. FIELD HEADQUARTERS 320
XXV. BLOOD AND IRON 327
XXVI. APPLES OF GOLD 343
XXVII. IN WHICH PATRICIA DRIVES 356
XXVIII. THE GOSSIPING WIRES 367
XXIX. AT SHONOHO INN 379
XXX. THE RECKONING 390
XXXI. _A LA BONNE HEURE_ 407


THE HONORABLE SENATOR SAGE-BRUSH


I
BECAUSE PATRICIA SAID "NO"

Some one was giving a dinner dance at the country club, and Blount, who
was a week-end guest of the Beverleys, was ill-natured enough to be
resentful. What right had a gay and frivolous world to come and thrust
its light-hearted happiness upon him when Patricia had said "No"? It was
like bullying a cripple, he told himself morosely, and when he had read
the single telegram which had come while he was at dinner he begged Mrs.


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