WITH AN APOLOGY TO THE LITTLE SISTER
THAT THE PLOT IS NOT MORE BLOOD-CURDLING AND
HARROWING, THIS STORY OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO HIS YOUNG
FRIENDS GUSSIE AND GENIE DEMAREST
BY THE AUTHOR

145 WEST FIFTY-FIFTH STREET,
NEW YORK, September 4, 1897

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I [Completing the Line]

II [The Old Man of the Mountain]

III [The Mountain of the Twentieth Red Pin]

IV [A Day of Discoveries]

V [The Cipher Code]

VI [Messages of Dire Disasters]