E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from scanned images of public domain material generously made available by the Google Books Library Project (http://books.google.com/) THE CITY OF NUMBERED DAYS BY FRANCIS LYNDE ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR E. BECHER CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK 1914 Copyright, 1914, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Copyright, 1914, by Published August, 1914 TO MY WIFE "What would I do? A number of things." Page 91 CONTENTS The Heptaderm J. Wesley Crœsus Sands of Pactolus A Fire of Little Sticks Symptomatic Mirapolis The Speedway Table Stakes Bedlam