THE MARK OF THE KNIFE
BY CLAYTON H. ERNST
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CHASE EMERSON
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1920
Copyright, 1920,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published October, 1920
Norwood Press
Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co.
Norwood, Mass., U. S. A.
In their eyes, for the time being at least, it surpassedthe battle of the Marne.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I The Newcomer
CHAPTER II A Blemish
CHAPTER III A Plan and a Game
CHAPTER IV Two Visits and a Theft
CHAPTER V Teeny-bits' Chance
CHAPTER VI Discoveries
CHAPTER VII On the Eve of the Struggle
CHAPTER VIII Strange Captors
CHAPTER IX The Great Game
CHAPTER X At Lincoln Hall
CHAPTER XI Mysteries in Part Explained
CHAPTER XII A Visit To Chuan Kai's
CHAPTER XIII Days of Pleasure
CHAPTER XIV A Tale of the Far East
By CLAYTON H. ERNST
ILLUSTRATIONS
In their eyes, for the time being at least, it surpassed the battle ofthe Marne
At the beginning of the final quarter Coach Murray sent in Teeny-bits totake the place of White
Only three of them had a chance to reach the Ridgley player
From the foot of the slide they mounted slowly, tracing backward thefive double tracks
THE MARK OF THE KNIFE
CHAPTER I
THE NEWCOMER
Ridgley School, with its white buildings set comfortably among themaples and the oaks that crown the flat top of the hill a mile to thewest of the village of Hamilton, attracts and holds the attention of alleyes that fall upon it. Partly perhaps because the dormitories and therecreation halls fit into the landscape and do not jut boldly andcrudely above the trees—as so many buildings on hilltops do—there isan air of hominess and informality about the place which new visitorsgenerally notice and mention to Doctor Wells, its head.
But it is one