BY FRANCIS LYNDE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

The City of Numbered Days

I The Heptaderm

II J. Wesley Croesus

III Sands of Pactolus

IV A Fire of Little Sticks

V Symptomatic

VI Mirapolis

VII The Speedway

VIII Table Stakes

IX Bedlam

X Epochal

XI The Feast of Hurrahs

XII Quicksands

XIII Flood Tide

XIV The Abyss

XV The Setting of the Ebb

XVI The Man on the Bank

XVII The Circean Cup

XVIII Love's Crucible

XIX The Sunset Gun

XX The Terror

Title: The City of Numbered Days

Author: Francis Lynde

Language: English

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