E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

681 FIFTH AVENUE


Copyright, 1919

By E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

All Rights Reserved

Printed in the United States of America


CONTENTS
CHAPTERPAGE
I.The Ground-Hog[1]
II.Big Boy[7]
III.Hobo Stuff[16]
IV.Cash[23]
V.Mother Trigedgo[33]
VI.The Oraculum[42]
VII.The Eminent Buttinsky[53]
VIII.The Silver Treasure[61]
IX.Bible-Back Murray[72]
X.Signs and Omens[81]
XI.The Lady of the Sycamores[92]
XII.Steel on Steel[100]
XIII.Swede Luck[108]
XIV.The Strike[119]
XV.A Night for Love[128]
XVI.A Friend[138]
XVII.Broke[147]
XVIII.The Hand of Fate[154]
XIX.The Man-Killer[161]
XX.Jumpers–and Tenors[170]
XXI.Broke Again[180]
XXII.The Rock-Drilling Contest[189]
XXIII.The Heart of his Beloved[200]
XXIV.Colonel Dodge[210]
XXV.The Answer[219]
XXVI.The Course of the Law[231]
XXVII.Like a Hog on Ice[238]
XXVIII.Parole[245]
XXIX.The Interpretation Thereof[251]