Wardon Allan Curtis

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton (Illustrated) Wardon Allan Curtis

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton is a novel written by Wardon Allan Curtis. The Manner in Which Mr. Edward Middleton Encounters the Emir Achmed Ben Daoud. It was a lowering and gloomy night in the early part of the present century. Mr. Edward Middleton, a gallant youth, who had but lately passed his twenty-third year, was faring northward along the southern part of that famous avenue of commerce, Clark Street, in the city of Chicago, wending his way toward the emporium of Mr. Marks Cohen. Suddenly the rain began to descend in great scattered drops that presaged a heavy shower.