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    Q U I N

                                 BY



                           ALICE HEGAN RICE

             Author of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,"

             "Lovey Mary," "Sandy," "Calvary Alley," etc.

                               NEW YORK

                            THE CENTURY CO.

                                 1921

                         Copyright, 1921, by

                           THE CENTURY CO.



                         PRINTED IN U. S. A.

                        TO MY MERRIEST FRIEND



                         JOSEPHINE F. HAMILL

                         Transcriber's Note:



         The Table of Contents was not in the original text and

           has been created for the convenience of the reader.

                               CONTENTS



                CHAPTER  1                    CHAPTER 18

                CHAPTER  2                    CHAPTER 19

                CHAPTER  3                    CHAPTER 20

                CHAPTER  4                    CHAPTER 21

                CHAPTER  5                    CHAPTER 22

                CHAPTER  6                    CHAPTER 23

                CHAPTER  7                    CHAPTER 24

                CHAPTER  8                    CHAPTER 25

                CHAPTER  9                    CHAPTER 26

                CHAPTER 10                    CHAPTER 27

                CHAPTER 11                    CHAPTER 28

                CHAPTER 12                    CHAPTER 29

                CHAPTER 13                    CHAPTER 30

                CHAPTER 14                    CHAPTER 31

                CHAPTER 15                    CHAPTER 32

                CHAPTER 16                    CHAPTER 33

                CHAPTER 17

                               Q U I N

                              CHAPTER 1

If the dollar Quinby Graham tossed up on New Year's eve had not elected
to slip through his fingers and roll down the sewer grating, there might
have been no story to write. Quin had said, "Tails, yes"; and who knows
but that down there under the pavement that coin of fate was registering
"Heads, no"? It was useless to suggest trying it over, however, for
neither of the young privates with town leave for twenty-four hours
possessed another coin.
The heavier of the two boys, Cass Martel,--the lame one, whose nose began
quite seriously, as if it had every intention of being a nose, then
changed abruptly into a button,--scraped the snow from the sewer grating
with his cane, and swore savagely under his breath. But Quin shrugged his
shoulders with a slow, easy-going laugh.