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Title: The Night Operator

Author: Frank L. Packard

Release date: September 4, 2010 [eBook #33634]

Most recently updated: January 6, 2021

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Al Haines

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THE NIGHT OPERATOR

BY

FRANK L. PACKARD

AUTHOR OF "THE WIRE DEVILS," "THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE," ETC.

THE COPP, CLARK CO., LIMITED

TORONTO

COPYRIGHT, 1919.

GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO

CHARLES AGNEW MACLEAN

BY FRANK L. PACKARD

THE NIGHT OPERATOR

THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE

THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE

THE WIRE DEVILS

THE SIN THAT WAS HIS

THE BELOVED TRAITOR

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN

THE MIRACLE MAN

FOREWORD

Summed up short, the Hill Division is a vicious piece of track; also, it is a classic in its profound contempt for the stereotyped equations and formulae of engineering. And it is that way for the very simple reason that it could not be any other way. The mountains objected, and objected strenuously, to the proces