Dick Merriwell's Trap; Or, The Chap Who Bungled
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This carefully edited collection of adventure & mystery novels has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of William George "Gilbert" Patten (1866-1945) was a writer of adventure novels, better known by his pen name Burt L. Standish. Patten used many other pseudonyms and wrote westerns and science-fiction novels, but he is most famous for his sporting stories in the Merriwell series with brothers Frank and Dick Merriwell, who became icons of All-American sportsmanship. Apart from the Merriwell stories, Patten wrote 75 com...
Chapters (30)
- CHAPTER I—A FARDALE VICTORY
- CHAPTER II—DICK STOPS A RUNAWAY
- CHAPTER III—HAPPINESS AND MISERY
- CHAPTER IV—JUNE’S PROMISE
- CHAPTER V—DICK KEEPS THE LOCKET
- CHAPTER VI—A DOUBTFUL MATTER
- CHAPTER VII—SOMETHING WRONG
- CHAPTER VIII—FARDALE’S WAY
- CHAPTER IX—DICK WINS AGAIN
- CHAPTER X—A MASTER OF HIMSELF
- CHAPTER XI—BOUND BY A PROMISE
- CHAPTER XII—A WARM MEETING
- CHAPTER XIII—THE PROMPTINGS OF CONSCIENCE
- CHAPTER XIV—ARLINGTON SHOWS HIS HAND
- CHAPTER XV—DETERMINED DICK
- CHAPTER XVI—A FINE PAIR
- CHAPTER XVII—DICK CONQUERS HIS ENEMY
- CHAPTER XVIII—BUNOL HOLDS HIS GRIP
- CHAPTER XIX—A CRY IN THE NIGHT
- CHAPTER XX—DONE IN THE DARK
- CHAPTER XXI—ON THE ACADEMY STEPS
- CHAPTER XXII—ANOTHER VICTORY FOR FARDALE
- CHAPTER XXIII—CHESTER FINDS A MASTER
- CHAPTER XXIV—A LONG WORD
- CHAPTER XXV—THE SPOOK APPEARS
- CHAPTER XXVI—THINGS ARE MISSING
- CHAPTER XXVII—DICK MAKES A DISCOVERY
- CHAPTER XXVIII—A SLIPPERY TRICK
- CHAPTER XXIX—THE MAGIC POWDER
- CHAPTER XXX—THE TRAP SPRUNG
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