THE MESSAGE
Suddenly he sprang upright
Frontispiece
THE MESSAGE
BY
LOUIS TRACY
Author of “The Wings of the Morning,” “The Wheel o’Fortune,” “The Captain of the Kansas,” etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY JOSEPH CUMMINGS CHASE
New York
Edward J. Clode
Publisher
Copyright, 1908
By EDWARD J. CLODE
Entered at Stationers’ Hall
The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| PAGE | |
| Derelicts | 1 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| How the Message was Delivered | 19 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| Wherein a Strong Man Yields to Circumstances | 36 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| Figuero Makes a Discovery | 53 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| A Man and a Story—Both Unemotional | 71 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| Wherein Warden Sets a New Course | 90 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| Two Women | 112 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| Showing How Many Roads Lead the Same Way | 131 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| Warden Begins His Odyssey | 150 |
| CHAPTER X[iv] | |
| Hassan’s Tower—and the Colonial Office | 172 |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| The Blue Man—and a White | ...|