The Rose in the Ring

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The Rose in the Ring (1910)
by George Barr McCutcheon, illustrated by A. I. Keller
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Edition:New York; Dodd, Mead and Company, 1910.

The only heir to a big Virginia estate, a boy still in his teens, is wrongfully accused, by an unscrupulous uncle, both of murder and of theft of a will; with circumstantial evidence tremendously against him, the boy runs away and finds a haven of refuge in a travelling circus, where in the disguise of a clown he finds himself able to elude the eyes of the sharpest detectives. Among his many friends none is more devoted than a certain professional pickpocket, whose devotion is inspired by his chance defence of the pickpocket's brother, a hunchback... —Taber Cooper in The Bookman, Nov 1910 {Full review in the Discussion page.]

4161546The Rose in the Ring1910George Barr McCutcheon

The Rose in the Ring

George Barr McCutcheon

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His audience was fairly hanging on his words

(Page 190)

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THE
ROSE IN THE RING


BY
GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON

Author of "Beverly of Graustark,"
"Truxton King," etc.


WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
A. I. KELLER



NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1910

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Copyright, 1910, by
Dodd, Mead and Company

Published, September, 1910

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

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CONTENTS

PART I

  1. ChapterPage
  2. I—The Fugitive 1
  3. II—In the Dressing Tent 18
  4. III—David enters the Sawdust Ring 40
  5. IV—A Stranger appears on the Scene 55
  6. V—Something about the Braddocks 77
  7. VI—David Jenison's Story 96
  8. VII—The Brothers Cronk 117
  9. VIII—An Invitation to Supper 133
  10. IX—A Thief in the Night 152
  11. X—Love wings a Timid Dart 168
  12. XI—Artful Dick goes Visiting 185
  13. XII—In which Many Things happen 199
  14. XIII—The Sale 221

PART II

  1. I—The Daughter of Colonel Grand 238
  2. II—The Stranger at the Hall 256
  3. III—The Man Who Served His Time 275
  4. IV—The Delivery of a Telegram 295
  5. V—The Love that was Staunch 310
  6. VI—Door-steps 329
  7. VII—Tom Braddock's Promise 345
  8. VIII—Colonel Grand and the Cronks 367
  9. IX—In the Little Triangular "Square" 388
  10. X—The Black Headlines 409


ILLUSTRATIONS

  1. His audience was fairly hanging on his words (Page 190) Frontispiece
  2. "It is my money!" cried David Facing page 44
  3. Her lips parted in amazement, tremulously struggling into a smile of wonder and unbelief {{{1}}}„{{{1}}}„ 318
  4. "This is the one, great, solitary hour in your life" {{{1}}}„{{{1}}}„ 362

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