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STRUGGLING UPWARD OR LUKE LARKIN'S LUCK By Horatio Alger, Jr.



CONTENTS

STRUGGLING UPWARD

CHAPTER I — THE WATERBURY WATCH

CHAPTER II — TOM HARPER'S ACCIDENT

CHAPTER III — RANDOLPH GETS THE WATCH

CHAPTER IV — LUKE'S NIGHT ADVENTURE

CHAPTER V — LUKE RECEIVES AN INVITATION

CHAPTER VI — PREPARING FOR THE PARTY

CHAPTER VII — FLORENCE GRANT'S PARTY

CHAPTER VIII — MISS SPRAGUE DISCOVERS A SECRET

CHAPTER IX — LUKE LOSES HIS POSITION

CHAPTER X — MELINDA MAKES MISCHIEF

CHAPTER XI — LUKE IS ARRESTED

CHAPTER XII — LUKE AS A PRISONER

CHAPTER XIII — IN THE COURT-ROOM

CHAPTER XIV — AN IMPORTANT WITNESS

CHAPTER XV — THE LARKINS ARE IN LUCK

CHAPTER XVI — LUKE'S VISIT TO NEW YORK

CHAPTER XVII — RANDOLPH IS MYSTIFIED

CHAPTER XVIII — MR. DUNCAN'S SECRET

CHAPTER XIX — EFFECTING A LOAN

CHAPTER XX — LUKE TALKS WITH A CAPITALIST

CHAPTER XXI — THE DREADED INTERVIEW

CHAPTER XXII — LUKE SECURES A NEW FRIEND

CHAPTER XXIII — RANDOLPH AND HIS CREDITOR

CHAPTER XXIV — A COMMISSION FOR LUKE

CHAPTER XXV — MR. J. MADISON COLEMAN

CHAPTER XXVI — THE OTTAWA HOUSE

CHAPTER XXVII — COLEMAN ACTS SUSPICIOUSLY

CHAPTER XXVIII — COLEMAN'S LITTLE PLAN

CHAPTER XXIX — MR. COLEMAN IS FOILED IN HIS ATTEMPT

CHAPTER XXX — A DISCOVERY

CHAPTER XXXI — TONY DENTON'S CALL

CHAPTER XXXII — ON THE WAY TO THE BLACK HILLS

CHAPTER XXXIII — TWO UNEXPECTED CHAMPIONS

CHAPTER XXXIV — FENTON'S GULCH

CHAPTER XXXV — BACK IN GROVETON

CHAPTER XXXVI — A LETTER FROM LUKE

CHAPTER XXXVII — AN INCIDENT ON THE CARS

CHAPTER XXXVIII — LUKE'S RETURN

CHAPTER XXXIX — HOW LUKE WAS RECEIVED

CHAPTER XL — THE BANK ROBBER IS FOUND







STRUGGLING UPWARD OR LUKE LARKIN'S LUCK By Horatio Alger, Jr.







CHAPTER I — THE WATERBURY WATCH

One Saturday afternoon in January a lively and animated group of boys were gathered on the western side of a large pond in the village of Groveton. Prominent among them was a tall, pleasant-looking young man of twenty-two, the teacher of the Center Grammar School, Frederic Hooper, A. B., a recent graduate of Yale College. Evidently there was something of importance on foot. What it was may be learned from the words of the teacher.

"Now, boys," he said, holding in his hand a Waterbury watch, of neat pattern, "I offer this watch as a prize to the boy who will skate across the pond and back in the least time. You will all start together, at a given signal, and make your way to the mark which I have placed at the western end of

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