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Tangles: Tales of some droll predicaments (1922)
by Margaret Cameron
"Who Laughs Last"
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Edition: New York & London; Harper and Brothers, 1922. illustrators: William Dodge Stevens, Will F. Foster, William T. Smedley, Lucius W. Hitchcock. Almost all the stories were first published in Harper's Magazine

A book full of amusing tales told so skillfully as to excite attention and prevent the reader from skipping to find out the end. The people who figure in the droll predicaments are bright-witted and full of clever expedients. While there are both romance and mystery, the author holds to her sure and graceful course between undue sentiment on one side and an excess of complex detective plots on the other. She is a diverting, talented raconteur. —from The Outlook, 30 Nov 1912.

4106738Tangles: Tales of some droll predicaments1922Margaret Cameron

TANGLES

MARGARET
CAMERON

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HIS REPRODUCTION OF LUCIA'S DROLL INFLECTION WAS INIMITABLE

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TANGLES

TALES OF
SOME DROLL PREDICAMENTS


BY
MARGARET CAMERON

AUTHOR OF
"THE INVOLUNTARY CHAPERON"
"THE CAT AND THE CANARY"
ETC.

ILLUSTRATED



HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
MCMXII

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Books by

MARGARET CAMERON

HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY HARPER & BROTHERS

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA
PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 1912

H-M

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CONTENTS

  1. page
  2. "Who Laughs Last" 1
  3. The Woman and the Law 27
  4. The Price of the Past Participle 48
  5. The Thing that Couldn't 71
  6. The Pipes o' Pan 101
  7. The Dénouement 130
  8. "The Little White Hin" 155
  9. The Ultimate Moment 184
  10. Wainwright and the Little Gods 200
  11. A Chance Samaritan 224
  12. The Mighty Trifle 247
  13. The Way to the Wedding 278
  14. When the Turtle Turned Loose 303
  15. Who Killed Cock Robin? 326
  16. The Forlorn Hope 352

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  1. HIS REPRODUCTION OF LUCIA'S DROLL INFLECTION WAS INIMITABLE Frontispiece
  2. "IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO?" Facing p. 10
  3. "WE ARE UNDER—SOME OBLIGATION TO GIUSEPPE, HE ONCE DID ME—A SERVICE" {{{1}}}„ 96
  4. "PARDON ME, MY VALUES DON'T ALWAYS TALLY WITH YOURS" {{{1}}}„ 104
  5. "I RANG—THREE TIMES, BUT NO ONE CAME" {{{1}}}„ 156
  6. WAINWRIGHT STRUCK A MATCH AND HELD IT BETWEEN CURVED HANDS {{{1}}}„ 214
  7. "NED McEWEN, OF ALL MEN!" SHE REJOICED {{{1}}}„ 278
  8. "I MIGHT EVEN NOW BE LANGUISHING BEHIND PRISON BARS" {{{1}}}„ 366

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1947, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 76 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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