The Real Adventure
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- "We can't talk here," he said. "We must go elsewhere."
- THE REAL ADVENTURE
- A Novel
- HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER
- ILLUSTRATED BY
- R. M. CROSBY
- INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
- Serial Version 1915 THE RIDGWAY COMPANY
- Complete Version 1916 THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
- CONTENTS
- BOOK I THE GREAT ILLUSION
- BOOK II LOVE AND THE WORLD
- BOOK III THE WORLD ALONE
- BOOK IV THE REAL ADVENTURE
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- BOOK ONE The Great Illusion
- CHAPTER I A POINT OF DEPARTURE
- CHAPTER II BEGINNING AN ADVENTURE
- CHAPTER III FREDERICA'S PLAN AND WHAT HAPPENED TO IT
- CHAPTER IV ROSALIND STANTON DOESN'T DISAPPEAR
- CHAPTER V THE SECOND ENCOUNTER
- At sight of him she flashed to her feet.
- CHAPTER VI THE BIG HORSE
- CHAPTER VII HOW IT STRUCK PORTIA
- CHAPTER VIII RODNEY'S EXPERIMENT
- CHAPTER IX AFTER BREAKFAST
- "Oh, my dear! I didn't know!"
- BOOK TWO Love and the World
- CHAPTER I THE PRINCESS CINDERELLA
- CHAPTER II THE FIRST QUESTION AND AN ANSWER TO IT
- CHAPTER III WHERE DID ROSE COME IN
- CHAPTER IV LONG CIRCUITS AND SHORT
- CHAPTER V RODNEY SMILED
- CHAPTER VI THE DAMASCUS ROAD
- CHAPTER VII HOW THE PATTERN WAS CUT
- CHAPTER VIII A BIRTHDAY
- Barry and Jane gazed at her wide-eyed.
- CHAPTER IX A DEFEAT
- CHAPTER X THE DOOR THAT WAS TO OPEN
- CHAPTER XI AN ILLUSTRATION
- CHAPTER XII WHAT HARRIET DID
- CHAPTER XIII FATE PLAYS A JOKE
- CHAPTER XIV THE DAM GIVES WAY
- CHAPTER XV THE ONLY REMEDY
- CHAPTER XVI ROSE OPENS THE DOOR
- BOOK THREE The World Alone
- CHAPTER I THE LENGTH OF A THOUSAND YARDS
- CHAPTER II THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIRST DAY
- "I want a job in the chorus."
- CHAPTER III ROSE KEEPS THE PATH
- CHAPTER IV THE GIRL WITH THE BAD VOICE
- CHAPTER V MRS. GOLDSMITH'S TASTE
- "It isn't quite so much your style, is it?"
- CHAPTER VI A BUSINESS PROPOSITION
- CHAPTER VII THE END OF A FIXED IDEA
- CHAPTER VIII SUCCESS—AND A RECOGNITION
- CHAPTER IX THE MAN AND THE DIRECTOR
- CHAPTER X THE VOICE OF THE WORLD
- "Don't you know that that was Rose Aldrich?"
- CHAPTER XI THE SHORT CIRCUIT AGAIN
- CHAPTER XII "I'M ALL ALONE"
- CHAPTER XIII FREDERICA'S PARADOX
- "What earthly thing does it matter whose fault it is?"
- CHAPTER XIV THE MIRY WAY
- CHAPTER XV IN FLIGHT
- CHAPTER XVI ANTI-CLIMAX
- CHAPTER XVII THE END OF THE TOUR
- CHAPTER XVIII THE CONQUEST OF CENTROPOLIS
- BOOK FOUR The Real Adventure
- CHAPTER I THE TUNE CHANGES
- CHAPTER II A BROKEN PARALLEL
- CHAPTER III FRIENDS
- "You're a good friend," she said.
- CHAPTER IV COULEUR-DE-ROSE
- CHAPTER V THE BEGINNING
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