THE MYSTERY OF CLEVERLY

THE MYSTERY OF
CLEVERLY

A STORY FOR BOYS

BY
GEORGE BARTON

New York, Cincinnati, Chicago
BENZIGER BROTHERS
PUBLISHERS OF BENZIGER’S MAGAZINE

Copyright, 1907, by Benziger Brothers

CONTENTS

ChapterPage
I.In Which a Bully Comes to Grief[7]
II.Herbert Finds Himself the Innocent Cause of Much Trouble[14]
III.Proving that Birds of a Feather Flock Together[24]
IV.In Which Fortune Unexpectedly Favors David Harkins[33]
V.In Which David Harkins Becomes the Victim of Peculiar Circumstances[39]
VI.In Which David Harkins Quits This Life and Takes His Secret with Him[48]
VII.In Which Herbert Meets Adversity and Learns the Meaning of Hard Work[58]
VIII.Herbert Becomes Ambitious and is Fascinated by the Smell of Printers’ Ink[66]
IX.Having Become a Newspaper Writer Herbert Looks for New Worlds to Conquer[77]
X.Which Tells of How Herbert Came to Leave the Town of Cleverly[88]
XI.Herbert is Awed and Amazed by His First Sight of a Great City[98]
XII.In Which Herbert Becomes Acquainted With Some of the Methods of Modern Journalism[109]
XIII.Herbert Makes a Hit and Tides Over a Temporary Financial Difficulty[120]
XIV.In Which Herbert is Given an Unusual Opportunity to Distinguish Himself[127]
XV.In Which Herbert Does Some Very Hard Work and Receives a Terrible Shock[135]
XVI.In Which Herbert Loses His Position and Retires in Disgrace[143]
XVII.The Young Reporter Finds That the Door of Opportunity is Closed to Him[153]
XVIII.Wherein a Black Sheep Shows a Desire to Change His Color[161]
XIX.Persistence Has its Reward and Herbert Finally Meets the Mysterious Stranger[169]
XX.In Which a Stain is Removed from the Memory of an Innocent Man[180]
XXI.In Which a Telephone Call Produces Some Unexpected Results[186]
XXII.Proving that Bad Persons, Like Bad Pennies, are Constantly Reappearing[194]
XXIII.In Which a Bad Man Reaches the End of His Rope[204]
XXIV.Wherein the Clouds Pass Away and the Sun Shines on Herbert Harkins[215]
XXV.Demonstrating the Truth of the Saying that All’s Well that Ends Well[225]