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A ROMANCE IN TRANSIT

BY FRANCIS LYNDE

THIRD EDITION

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK 1899

Copyright, 1897, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK

To the small person who unconsciously
provided the motif herein wrought upon,
this transitory tale is affectionately attributed
by The Author

CONTENTS

I. P. P. C. Ariadne
II. The "Personally Conducted"
III. The Private Car
IV. The Dinner Station
V. At the Meeting-point
VI. Regardless Orders
VII. A Dinner on Wheels
VIII. The Cab of the Ten-wheeler
IX. Fifty Miles an Hour
X. A Confidence En Route
XI. An Arrival in Transit
XII. The Ancients and Invalids
XIII. Between Stations
XIV. With Denver in Sight
XV. Yard-limits
XVI. The Madding Crowd
XVII. On the Narrow-gauge
XVIII. Flagged Down
XIX. The Foolish Wires
XX. Chiefly Scenic
XXI. On the Heights
XXII. On the Spur-track
XXIII. The Land of Heart's Delight
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