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NEW TREASURE SEEKERS

NEW TREASURE SEEKERS

Or The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune

E. NESBIT Author of "The Treasure Seekers," "The Would-Be-Goods," Etc.

With Illustrations by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer [Illustration]

New York Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers

TO ARTHUR WATTS (OSWALD IN PARIS) FROM E. NESBIT

Montparnasse, 1904.

NEW TREASURE SEEKERS

CONTENTS

PAGE THE ROAD TO ROME; OR, THE SILLY STOWAWAY 15

THE CONSCIENCE-PUDDING 37

ARCHIBALD THE UNPLEASANT 62

OVER THE WATER TO CHINA 88

THE YOUNG ANTIQUARIES 113

THE INTREPID EXPLORER AND HIS LIEUTENANT 136

THE TURK IN CHAINS; OR, RICHARD'S REVENGE 161

THE GOLDEN GONDOLA 185

THE FLYING LODGER 209

THE SMUGGLER'S REVENGE 236

ZAÏDA, THE MYSTERIOUS PROPHETESS OF THE GOLDEN ORIENT 262

THE LADY AND THE LICENSE; OR, FRIENDSHIP'S GARLAND 287

THE POOR AND NEEDY 311

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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THE STAIR WAS OF STONE, ARCHED OVERHEAD LIKE CHURCHES Frontispiece

DORA DID SOME WHITE SEWING 19

THEY LAUGHED EVER SO 34