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"Just a stroke of the pen, dear, and my father will befree" (page 279)
THE
RUNNING FIGHT
BY
WILLIAM HAMILTON OSBORNE
Author of "The Red Mouse"
With Illustrations by
Harrison Fisher and
George Brehm
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1910
Copyright, 1910, byWILLIAM HAMILTON OSBORNE
Published April, 1910
TO
W. H. O., Jr. and F. S. O.
ILLUSTRATIONS
| "Just a stroke of the pen, dear, and my father will be free" (page 279) | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | |
| It was a mere wisp of a girl who confronted him | 14 |
| If only he had dared ... he would have drawn the dainty head of Leslie Wilkinson down onhis shoulder and would have kissed her thenand there | 76 |
| "We've got a long fight ahead, Leslie—a running fight, as Colonel Morehead calls it, but I'mready" | 370 |
Once, twice, thrice,—failing miserably in his attempt to appearunconcerned,—Ilingsworth paced back and forth in front of Peter V.Wilkinson's big house in Riverside Drive. There it stood: a massive,forbidding, modern pile of limestone, wholly unlike anything in itsvicinity. And yet, now that the time had come, Il
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