"I ain't done a thing!" 40 "Look how he left me" 57 "Want another haircut?" 67 "Now what does he mean?" 114 "I'll show you!" 131 "See what I've got" 146 He beheld two white figures 171 "Plain and fancy swimming" 178 He would have liked one for a pet 210 The audience was spell-bound 221 "Who's goin' to be the little girl?" 237 "Perhaps I can save your life" 251 "We want to sell all this" 269 The auctioneer paused 278 Piercing shrieks greeted their appearance 319 "My father got it for me" 327 "Put the tray on the table" 344 SUBE CANE CHAPTER I BEFORE USING Astride the ridgepole of his father's stable Sube Cane sat with the easy grace of a range-rider, gently rising in his stirrups in unison with the pounding of imaginary unshod hoofs on the soft turf of a dreamland prairie, as he conversed in low tones with a dark-haired maiden who rode in fancy beside him. And, as he rode, he gently rubbed his upper lip with an index finger. Nor was this rubbing the aimless wandering of an idle forefinger; it was persistent and purposeful. For although Sube was only twelve years of age and still in knickerbockers, he was set upon the propagation of a mustache. The desire and the opportunity of fulfillment had come to him at almost the same instant. Voices in the library had attracted his attention a few moments before, and pausing outside the door he had heard Dr. Richards jovially expounding to his father the virtues of a large sample bottle of hair restorer which apparently possessed all the quickening agencies known to man, and was, with the trifling exception of an unendurable odor, all that the name implied--a Boon for Baldness. The doctor's intimation that the stuff would grow hair on the side of a house aroused Sube's interest. And soon after the doctor's departure the boy purloined the bottle from his father's medicine cabinet, and strictly in the interest of scientific investigation rubbed a small quantity on the side of the house. It was during this experiment that the big idea was born. If it would grow hair on the side of a house, why not--?