Front matter
Reading edition
Works of Robert W. Chambers
Special Messenger
The Firing LineIole
The Younger SetThe Reckoning
The Fighting ChanceThe Maid-at-Arms
Some Ladies in HasteCardigan
The Tree of HeavenThe Haunts of Men
The Tracer of Lost PersonsThe Mystery of Choice
A Young Man in a HurryThe Cambric Mask
LorraineA Maker of Moons
Maids of ParadiseThe King in Yellow
Ashes of EmpireIn Search of the Unknown
The Red RepublicThe Conspirators
OutsidersA King and a Few Dukes
In the Quarter
For Children
Garden-LandMountain-Land
Forest-LandOrchard-Land
River-LandOutdoorland
“Daintily her handsome horse set foot in the water.” Page 131.
SPECIAL MESSENGER By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK MCMIX
Copyright, 1909, by ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
Copyright, 1904, 1905, by Harper and Brothers
Copyright, 1908, by P F Collier & Son
Copyright, 1908, by The Curtis Publishing Company
Published, March, 1909
TO GEORGE F. D. TRASK IN MEMORY OF OUR FIRST MARTIAL EXPLOITS IN THE NURSERY
Thou hast given a banner to them that fear Thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth.—Psalm lx, 4.