The Cleverdale Mystery; or, The Machine and Its Wheels: A Story of American Life
A STORY OF AMERICAN LIFE.
W. A. WILKINS,
EDITOR OF THE WHITEHALL (N. Y.) TIMES.
NEW YORK:
FORDS, HOWARD, & HULBERT.
1882.
Copyright, 1882,
By W. A. WILKINS.
All rights reserved.
In presenting this volume to the public, the author hopes to impart information to some; reflect their own character to others; possibly point a moral, and by the tale interest the reader. The warp of the fabric is reality, the woof fiction, the coloring domestic. Awaiting the verdict, Respectfully, THE AUTHOR.
W. A. Wilkins
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHARACTERS.
BEAUTIFUL LAKE GEORGE.
A QUARTETTE OF SCHEMERS.
TEMPEST-TOSSED LAKE GEORGE.
THE BOSS AND HIS AIDS.
TO THE RESCUE.
A CAMP DINNER.
THE CRUEL THUNDERBOLT.
AFFAIRS AT CLEVERDALE.
THE CAUCUS.
THE CRUELTY OF AMBITION.
THE CONVENTION.
A WICKED SCHEME.
DALEY'S STRENGTH WANES.
THE ELECTION.
GLOOMY FOREBODINGS.
THE PRINCE OF MANNIS MANOR.
SARGENT ENLISTED.
GEORGE AND FANNIE ALDEN.
THE BURNING FACTORY.
THE SECRET MARRIAGE.
SPOILS! SPOILS!
SAD FAREWELLS.
EXILED FROM HOME AND FRIENDS.
THE DISTRACTED WIFE.
THE CRUEL LETTER.
A DIRTY JOB.
CLEVERDALE'S SORROW.
AMONG THE HILLS OF COLORADO.
POOR MARY HARRIS.
THE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
A REVELATION.
"A SAD TRAGEDY.
THE WANDERER'S RETURN.
RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE.
THE CLEVERDALE MYSTERY.
EPILOGUE—THE MACHINE AND ITS WHEELS.
