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Scientific Sprague

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Scientific Sprague (1912)
by Francis Lynde
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[Accompanying illustrations by E. Roscoe Shrader may be omitted. ]

This volume continues the history of the inter-mountain railway which played title rôle in the "Taming of Red Butte Western." Re-christened the Nevada Short Line, that indispensable and now thoroughly regenerate branch of the Pacific Southwestern might have enjoyed deserved prosperity had not its ancient enemy, the avid Transcontinental, marked it for its prey. [...] it is doubtful whether Sprague as a personality will strongly impress himself upon the popular mind. [...] The "appeal" of the tale lies neither in the mysteries of crime nor the ingenuities of the sleuth, but in an abundance of situations boldly designed to raise the reader's hair with apprehension. —extracted from the review in the Bookman, 1912 December.

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Scientific Sprague



BY

FRANCIS LYNDE


ILLUSTRATED BY

B. ROSCOE SHRADER

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

NEW YORK ::::::::: 1912

Copyright, 1912, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published October, 1912


CONTENTS

CHAPTER

ILLUSTRATIONS

Where another man might have asked questions, he stood aside and looked on and listened Frontispiece
Thanks to the man with the red lantern, there were half a dozen car-lengths to spare between the two trains when the double stop was made 18
Brushing them aside with his mighty weight or driving them before him like chaff in the fury of his onset 108
Sprague had unlimbered and focussed his camera again and was calmly taking snap-shot after snap-shot 270

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