SEWELL FORD

AUTHOR OF TORCHY, TORCHY, PRIVATE SEC, ETC.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRANK SNAPP AND ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN

NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1915, 1916, 1917, BY SEWELL FORD COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY EDWARD J. CLODE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. ON THE WAY WITH CYBIL

II. TOWING CECIL TO A SMEAR

III. TORCHY HANDS OUT A SPILL

IV. HOW HAM PASSED THE BUCK

V. WITH ELMER LEFT IN

VI. A BALANCE FOR THE BOSS

VII. TORCHY FOLLOWS A HUNCH

VIII. BREAKING ODD WITH MYRA

IX. REPORTING BLANK ON RUPERT

X. WHEN AUNTIE CRASHES IN

XI. A JOLT FROM OLD HICKORY

XII. TORCHY HITS THE HIGH SEAS

XIII. WHEN THE NAVY HORNED IN

XIV. AUNTIE TAKES A NIGHT OFF

XV. PASSING THE JOKE BUCK

XVI. TORCHY TAKES A RUNNING JUMP

XVII. A LITTLE SPEED ON THE HOME STRETCH

ILLUSTRATIONS

"But the impudence of you, to do it right here!" she goes on. "No one but you, Torchy, would have thought of that." . . . . . . Frontispiece

"I don't think I ever saw Auntie come so near beamin' before. She seems right at home, fieldin' that line of chat. And Vee, too, is more or less under the spell.

"For a second it looked like Gladys was goin' to freeze with horror; but she just gives Valentina the once-over and indulges in a panicky little giggle."

"Then she grips me around the neck and snuggles her head down on my necktie—say, then I knew."

WILT THOU TORCHY