The Daughter of a Magnate

by Frank H. Spearman

Copyright, 1903, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published, October, 1903

To
WESLEY HAMILTON PECK, M.D.

CONTENTS

CHAP.
I.	[A JUNE WATER]
II.	[AN ERROR AT HEADQUARTERS]
III.	[INTO THE MOUNTAINS]
IV.	[AS THE DESPATCHER SAW]
V.	[AN EMERGENCY CALL]
VI.	[THE CAT AND THE RAT]
VII.	[TIME BEING MONEY]
VIII.	[SPLITTING THE PAW]
IX.	[A TRUCE]
X.	[AND A SHOCK]
XI.	[IN THE LALLA ROOKH]
XII.	[A SLIP ON A SPECIAL]
XIII.	[BACK TO THE MOUNTAINS]
XIV.	[GLEN TARN]
XV.	[NOVEMBER]
XVI.	[NIGHT]
XVII.	[STORM]
XVIII.	[DAYBREAK]
XIX.	[SUSPENSE]
XX.	[DEEPENING WATERS]
XXI.	[PILOT]
XXII.	[THE SOUTH ARÊTE]
XXIII.	[BUSINESS]

The Daughter of a Magnate

CHAPTER I

A JUNE WATER

The train, a special, made up of a private car and a diner, was running on a slow order and crawled between the bluffs at a snail's pace.

Ahead, the sun was sinking into the foothills and wherever the eye could reach to the horizon barren wastes lay riotously green under the golden blaze. The river, swollen everywhere out of its banks, spread in a broad and placid flood of yellow over the bottoms, and a hundred shallow lakes studded with willowed islands marked its wandering course to the south and east. The clear, far air of the mountains, the glory of the gold on the June hills and the illimitable stretch of waters below, spellbound the group on the observation platform.