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THE CARPET FROM BAGDAD

THE CARPET FROM BAGDAD

by

HAROLD MACGRATH

Author of A Splendid Hazard The Man on the Box

With Illustrations by Andre Castaigne

Indianapolis The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers

Copyright 1911 The Bobbs-Merrill Company

TO ROBERT HICHENS

_The wild hawk to the windswept sky,_
_The deer to the wholesome wold,_
_And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid,_
_As it was in the days of old._

--_Rudyard Kipling._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I WHAT'S IN A NAME? 1
II AN AFFABLE ROGUE 20
III THE HOLY YHIORDES 37
IV AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE 55
V THE GIRL WHO WASN'T WANTED 74
VI MOONLIGHT AND POETRY 96
VII RYANNE TABLES HIS CARDS 114
VIII THE PURLOINED CABLE 132
IX THE BITTER FRUIT 145
X MAHOMED LAUGHS 160
XI EPISODIC 179
XII THE CARAVAN IN THE DESERT 200
XIII NOT A CHEERFUL OUTLOOK 219
XIV MAHOMED OFFERS FREEDOM 240
XV FORTUNE'S RIDDLE SOLVED 259
XVI MAHOMED RIDES ALONE 279
XVII MRS. CHEDSOYE HAS HER DOUBTS 301
XVIII THE MAN WHO DIDN'T CARE 323
XIX FORTUNE DECIDES 337
XX MARCH HARES 354
XXI A BOTTLE OF WINE 367
XXII THE END OF THE PUZZLE 380