The Duke Decides

by Headon Hill

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LEONIE SHERMAN

THE DUKE

DECIDES

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By

HEADON HILL

Author of

By a Hair’s-Breadth, etc.

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New York

A. WESSELS COMPANY

1904

Copyright, 1903, by A. Wessels Company

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Published, 1903

 

PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.

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Contents

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CHAPTER		page
I.	The Man with the Mandate	9
II.	On Board the St. Paul	21
III.	A Task-master in Goggles	29
IV.	The Lady in the Landau	38
V.	Ziegler Begins to Move	51
VI.	The General is Curious	61
VII.	The Men on the Stairs	75
VIII.	The Cut Panel	87
IX.	The Strategy of the General	107
X.	A Duty Call	125
XI.	On the Terrace	139
XII.	The Man Under the Seat	161
XIII.	At the Keeper’s Cottage	180
XIV.	Too Many Women	196
XV.	A New Cure for Headache	217
XVI.	A Delicate Mission	234
XVII.	Where is the Duke?	255
XVIII.	The Senator and the Securities	271
XIX.	In the Crypt	284
XX.	In the Muniment Room	299
XXI.	The Honor of the House	321

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List of Illustrations

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Leonie Sherman	Frontispiece
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“A countrywoman of yours. I wonder if you know her?”	63
The procession of three led by the stranger	105
“I am very far from being indifferent to Mrs. Talmage Eglinton”	253