What Might Have
Been Expected
By
FRANK R. STOCKTON
New York
Dodd, Mead and Company


Copyright, 1874, by Dodd & Mead
Copyright, 1902, by Marian E. Stockton


Contents

CHAPTER PAGE
I.Harry Loudon Makes Up His Mind.[9]
II.The Adoption.[15]
III.Commencing Business.[21]
IV.Kate, very naturally, is Anxious.[30]
V.The Turkey-Hunter.[38]
VI.Tony Strikes Out.[47]
VII.Aunt Matilda's Christmas.[58]
VIII.A Lively Team.[71]
IX.Business in Earnest.[85]
X.A Meeting on the Road.[97]
XI.Rob.[103]
XII.Tony on the War-path.[112]
XIII.Cousin Maria.[118]
XIV.Harry's Grand Scheme.[124]
XV.The Council.[135]
XVI.Company Business.[143]
XVII.Principally Concerning Kate.[154]
XVIII.The Arrival.[164]
XIX.Constructing the Line.[172]
XX.An Important Meeting of the Board.[181]
XXIA Last Resort.[189]
XXII.A Quandary.[194]
XXIII.Crossing the Creek.[202]
XXIV.The First Business Telegrams.[210]
XXV.Profits and Projects[225]
XXVI.A Grand Proposition.[237]
XXVII.How Something Came to an End.[246]
XXVIII.A Meeting.[253]
XXIXOnce more in the Woods.[257]
XXX.A Girl and a Gun.[264]
XXXI.A Man in a Boat.[271]
XXXII.Aunt Matilda's Letter.[277]
XXXIII.Time to Stop.[286]