ELEVEN POSSIBLE CASES.

FRANK R. STOCKTON, FRANKLIN FYLES, JOAQUIN MILLER, MAURICE THOMPSON, INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD, EDGAR FAWCETT, BRAINARD GARDNER SMITH, KIRKE MUNROE, NYM CRINKLE, ANNA KATHERINE GREEN, AND Q.

CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited:
LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE.
1891.

[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]

CONTENTS.

The Only Girl at Overlook, Franklin Fyles
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.

A Thing that Glistened, Frank R. Stockton

A Lion and a Lioness, Joaquin Miller
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.

The Cheated Juliet, Q.

The Mystic Krewe, Maurice Thompson
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.

Strange Adventures of a Million Dollars, Ingersoll Lockwood

A Lost Day, Edgar Fawcett

A Tragedy of High Explosives, Brainard Gardner Smith
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.

The Bushwhacker's Gratitude, Kirke Munroe

The End of All, Nym Crinkle

Shall He Marry Her? Anna Katherine Green
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.

Uniform with this Work.

THE ONLY GIRL AT OVERLOOK.

BY FRANKLIN FYLES.

CHAPTER I.

Two names were used for the only girl at Overlook. In addressing her, the men of the place always said "Miss Warriner." In mentioning her, they often said "Mary Mite." The reason for this distinctive difference was revealed by the sight of Miss Mary Warriner herself, as she sat on a high stool behind a rude desk, under a roughly-boarded shelter, and with rapid fingers clicked the key of a telegraphic instrument. There was a perfect poise of quiet self-possession which would have been very impressive dignity in an older and bigger person, and which, although here limited by eighteen years and one hundred pounds, still made a demand for respectful treatment. Therefore the men, when in her presence, never felt like calling her anything else than "Miss Warriner." If she had been less like a stately damsel in miniature, and more like such a child as she was in size only; if her employment had been something not so near to science as that of telegraphy, and not so far off from juvenile simplicity; if her brown hair had been loosely curled, instead of closely coiled, and if her skirts had stopped at her ankles instead of reaching to her feet, then she might have been nicknamed "Mary Mite" within her own hearing, as she was beyond it, by those who described her smallness in a sobriquet. There may have been a variance of opinion among those