Lincoln, Joseph Crosby, 1870-1944 / 2008-11-24 00:00:00

EBOOK THE DEPOT MASTER ***


Produced by Donald Lainson


THE DEPOT MASTER
By Joseph C. Lincoln


CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I.-- AT THE DEPOT
II.-- SUPPLY AND DEMAND
III.-- "STINGY GABE"
IV.-- THE MAJOR
V.-- A BABY AND A ROBBERY
VI.-- AVIATION AND AVARICE
VII.-- CAPTAIN SOL DECIDES TO MOVE
VIII.--THE OBLIGATIONS OF A GENTLEMAN
IX.-- THE WIDOW BASSETT
X.-- CAPTAIN JONADAB GOES
XI.-- THE GREAT METROPOLIS
XII.-- A VISION SENT
XIII.--DUSENBERRY'S BIRTHDAY
XIV.-- EFFIE'S FATE
XV.-- THE "HERO" AND THE COWBOY
XVI.-- THE CRUISE OF THE RED CAR
XVII.--ISSY'S REVENGE
XVIII. THE MOUNTAIN AND MAHOMET


THE DEPOT MASTER


CHAPTER I
AT THE DEPOT

Mr. Simeon Phinney emerged from the side door of his residence and
paused a moment to light his pipe in the lee of the lilac bushes. Mr.
Phinney was a man of various and sundry occupations, and his sign,
nailed to the big silver-leaf in the front yard, enumerated a few of
them. "Carpenter, Well Driver, Building Mover, Cranberry Bogs Seen to
with Care and Dispatch, etc., etc.," so read the sign. The house was
situated in "Phinney's Lane," the crooked little byway off "Cross
Street," between the "Shore Road" at the foot of the slope and the "Hill
Boulevard"--formerly "Higgins's Roost"--at the top.
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