SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE BY EARL DERR BIGGERS Buccaneer Books NEW YORK Copyright © 1913 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-66864 CONTENTS CHAPTER I "Weep No More, My Lady" CHAPTER II Enter a Lovelorn Haberdasher CHAPTER III Blondes and Suffragettes CHAPTER IV A Professional Hermit Appears CHAPTER V The Mayor Casts a Shadow Before CHAPTER VI Ghosts of the Summer Crowd CHAPTER VII The Mayor Begins a Vigil CHAPTER VIII Mr. Max Tells a Tale of Suspicion CHAPTER IX Melodrama in the Snow CHAPTER X The Cold Gray Dawn CHAPTER XI A Falsehood Under the Palms CHAPTER XII Woe in Number Seven CHAPTER XIII The Exquisite Mr. Hayden CHAPTER XIV The Sign of the Open Window CHAPTER XV Table Talk CHAPTER XVI A Man from the Dark CHAPTER XVII The Professor Sums Up CHAPTER XVIII A Red Card CHAPTER XIX Exeunt Omnes, as Shakespeare Has It CHAPTER XX The Admiral's Game CHAPTER XXI The Mayor is Welcomed Home CHAPTER XXII The Usual Thing Weep No More, My Lady Enter a Lovelorn Haberdasher Blondes and Suffragettes A Professional Hermit Appears The Mayor Casts a Shadow Before Ghosts of the Summer Crowd The Mayor Begins a Vigil Mr. Max Tells a Tale of Suspicion Melodrama in the Snow