The Real Adventure

Opening of the book

"We can't talk here," he said. "We must go elsewhere."
"We can't talk here," he said.
"We must go elsewhere."
THE REAL ADVENTURE
A Novel
By
HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER
ILLUSTRATED BY

R. M. CROSBY
INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Serial Version
1915
THE RIDGWAY COMPANY
Complete Version
1916
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
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BROOKLYN, N.Y.
CONTENTS
BOOK I
THE GREAT ILLUSION
CHAPTER I
A Point of Departure
CHAPTER II
Beginning an Adventure
CHAPTER III
Frederica's Plan and What Happened to It
CHAPTER IV
Rosalind Stanton Doesn't Disappear

CHAPTER V
The Second Encounter
CHAPTER VI
The Big Horse
CHAPTER VII How It Struck Portia
CHAPTER VIII Rodney's Experiment
CHAPTER IX
After Breakfast
BOOK II
LOVE AND THE WORLD
CHAPTER I
The Princess Cinderella
CHAPTER II
The First Question and an Answer to It
CHAPTER III
Where Did Rose Come In
CHAPTER IV
Long Circuits and Short
CHAPTER V
Rodney Smiled
CHAPTER VI
The Damascus Road
CHAPTER VII How the Pattern Was Cut
CHAPTER VIII A Birthday
CHAPTER IX
A Defeat
CHAPTER X
The Door That Was to Open
CHAPTER XI
An Illustration
CHAPTER XII What Harriet Did
CHAPTER XIII Fate Plays a Joke
CHAPTER XIV The Dam Gives Way
CHAPTER XV The Only Remedy
CHAPTER XVI Rose Opens the Door

BOOK III
THE WORLD ALONE
CHAPTER I
The Length of a Thousand Yards
CHAPTER II
The Evening and the Morning
Were the First Day
CHAPTER III
Rose Keeps the Path
CHAPTER IV
The Girl With the Bad Voice
CHAPTER V
Mrs. Goldsmith's Taste
CHAPTER VI
A Business Proposition
CHAPTER VII
The End of a Fixed Idea
CHAPTER VIII
Success—and a Recognition
CHAPTER IX
The Man and the Director
CHAPTER X
The Voice of the World
CHAPTER XI
The Short Circuit Again
CHAPTER XII
"I'm All Alone"
CHAPTER XIII
Frederica's Paradox
CHAPTER XIV
The Miry Way
CHAPTER XV
In Flight
CHAPTER XVI
Anti-Climax
CHAPTER XVII The End of the Tour
CHAPTER XVIII The Conquest of Centropolis
BOOK IV

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