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CONTENTS
STRUGGLING UPWARD
CHAPTER I β THE WATERBURY WATCH
CHAPTER II β TOM HARPER'S ACCIDENT
CHAPTER III β RANDOLPH GETS THE WATCH
CHAPTER IV β LUKE'S NIGHT ADVENTURE
CHAPTER V β LUKE RECEIVES AN INVITATION
CHAPTER VI β PREPARING FOR THE PARTY
CHAPTER VII β FLORENCE GRANT'S PARTY
CHAPTER VIII β MISS SPRAGUE DISCOVERS A SECRET
CHAPTER IX β LUKE LOSES HIS POSITION
CHAPTER X β MELINDA MAKES MISCHIEF
CHAPTER XI β LUKE IS ARRESTED
CHAPTER XII β LUKE AS A PRISONER
CHAPTER XIII β IN THE COURT-ROOM
CHAPTER XIV β AN IMPORTANT WITNESS
CHAPTER XV β THE LARKINS ARE IN LUCK
CHAPTER XVI β LUKE'S VISIT TO NEW YORK
CHAPTER XVII β RANDOLPH IS MYSTIFIED
CHAPTER XVIII β MR. DUNCAN'S SECRET
CHAPTER XIX β EFFECTING A LOAN
CHAPTER XX β LUKE TALKS WITH A CAPITALIST
CHAPTER XXI β THE DREADED INTERVIEW
CHAPTER XXII β LUKE SECURES A NEW FRIEND
CHAPTER XXIII β RANDOLPH AND HIS CREDITOR
CHAPTER XXIV β A COMMISSION FOR LUKE
CHAPTER XXV β MR. J. MADISON COLEMAN
CHAPTER XXVI β THE OTTAWA HOUSE
CHAPTER XXVII β COLEMAN ACTS SUSPICIOUSLY
CHAPTER XXVIII β COLEMAN'S LITTLE PLAN
CHAPTER XXIX β MR. COLEMAN IS FOILED IN HIS ATTEMPT
CHAPTER XXX β A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XXXI β TONY DENTON'S CALL
CHAPTER XXXII β ON THE WAY TO THE BLACK HILLS
CHAPTER XXXIII β TWO UNEXPECTED CHAMPIONS
CHAPTER XXXIV β FENTON'S GULCH
CHAPTER XXXV β BACK IN GROVETON
CHAPTER XXXVI β A LETTER FROM LUKE
CHAPTER XXXVII β AN INCIDENT ON THE CARS
CHAPTER XXXVIII β LUKE'S RETURN
CHAPTER XXXIX β HOW LUKE WAS RECEIVED
CHAPTER XL β THE BANK ROBBER IS FOUND
STRUGGLING UPWARD OR LUKE LARKIN'S LUCK By Horatio Alger, Jr.
CHAPTER I β 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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