# The Sturgis wager

Author: Morette, Edgar

Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74441

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Sturgis+wager+Morette&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Broadway was thronged with the usual holiday shoppers and pleasure-seekers. Cabs with their jaded steeds driven by weatherbeaten jehus, and private carriages behind well-groomed horses handled by liveried coachmen, deftly made their way through the crowds and deposited their fares at the entrances of the brightly lighted theaters or fashionable restaurants. A wizened hag, seated on the curbstone at the corner, seemed to shrink into herself with the cold as she turned the crank of her tiny barrel-organ and ground out a dismal and scarcely audible cacophony; while an anxious-eyed newsboy, not yet in his teens, shivered on the opposite side of the way, as, with tremulous lips, he solicited a...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sturgis-wager-74441/chapters/16/index.md)