SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE
BY EARL DERR BIGGERS
Buccaneer Books
NEW YORK
Copyright © 1913 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-66864
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I "Weep No More, My Lady"
CHAPTER II Enter a Lovelorn Haberdasher
CHAPTER III Blondes and Suffragettes
CHAPTER IV A Professional Hermit Appears
CHAPTER V The Mayor Casts a Shadow Before
CHAPTER VI Ghosts of the Summer Crowd
CHAPTER VII The Mayor Begins a Vigil
CHAPTER VIII Mr. Max Tells a Tale of Suspicion
CHAPTER IX Melodrama in the Snow
CHAPTER X The Cold Gray Dawn
CHAPTER XI A Falsehood Under the Palms
CHAPTER XII Woe in Number Seven
CHAPTER XIII The Exquisite Mr. Hayden
CHAPTER XIV The Sign of the Open Window
CHAPTER XV Table Talk
CHAPTER XVI A Man from the Dark
CHAPTER XVII The Professor Sums Up
CHAPTER XVIII A Red Card
CHAPTER XIX Exeunt Omnes, as Shakespeare Has It
CHAPTER XX The Admiral's Game
CHAPTER XXI The Mayor is Welcomed Home
CHAPTER XXII The Usual Thing
SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE
CHAPTER I
"WEEP NO MORE, MY LADY"
A young woman was crying bitterly in the waiting-room of the railwaystation at Upper Asquewan Falls, New York.
A beautiful young woman? That is exactly what Billy Magee wanted to knowas, closing the waiting-room door behind him, he stood staring justinside. Were the features against which that frail bit of cambric wasagonizingly pressed of a pleasing contour? The girl's neatly tailoredcorduroy suit and her flippant but charming millinery augured well.Should he step gallantly forward and inquire in sympathetic tones as tothe cause of her woe? Should he carry chivalry even to the lengths ofUpper Asquewan Falls?
No, Mr. Magee decided he would not. The train that had just roared awayinto the dusk had not brought him from the region of skyscrapers andderby hats for deeds of knight errantry up state. Anyhow, the girl'stears were none of his business. A railway station was a natural placefor grief—a