Front matter
Reading edition
He felt with an odd exaltation the quick hammer of her heart against his breast. Frontispiece.
BURNED BRIDGES
BY
BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
AUTHOR OF NORTH OF FIFTY-THREE, Etc.
FRONTISPIECE BY RALPH P. COLEMAN
GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Published, August, 1919 Reprinted, September, 1919 Reprinted, October, 1919 Reprinted, November, 1919 Reprinted, February, 1920
CONTENTS
The First Problem
The Man and His Mission
The Deserted Cabin
In Which Mr. Thompson Begins to Wonder Painfully
Further Acquaintance
Certain Perplexities
A Slip of the Axe
--And the Fruits Thereof
Universal Attributes
The Way of a Maid with a Man
A Man's Job for a Minister
A Fortune and a Flitting
Partners
The Restless Foot
The World Is Small
A Meeting by the Way
The Reproof Courteous (?)
Mr. Henderson's Proposition
A Widening Horizon
The Shadow
The Renewed Triangle
Sundry Reflections
The Fuse—
—And the Match That Lit the Fuse—
—And the Bomb the Fuse Fired
The Last Bridge
Thompson's Return
Fair Winds
Two Men and a Woman
A Mark to Shoot at