IX. The Old Life--and the New

X. I Shake Hands with Old Man King

XI. A Cable Snaps

XII. I Begin to Realize

XIII. We Meet Once More

XIV. Frosty Disappears

XV. The Broken Motor-car

XVI. One More Race

XVII. The Final Reckoning





CHAPTER I.

The Reward of Folly.


I'm something like the old maid you read about--the one who always knows
all about babies and just how to bring them up to righteous maturity; I've
got a mighty strong conviction that I know heaps that my dad never thought