The Cavalier, January 1910

# The Cavalier, January 1910

This issue contains six serials and numerous short stories alongside advertisements. The featured serial "The Red Emperor" by Bannister Merwin begins with protagonist Ralph Calvert rushing to catch the Chicago Express from Jersey City. After a hasty barber visit interrupted by a stranger's fall, Calvert boards the wrong train—the Washington Flier to Philadelphia instead of the Chicago Express. Compounding his misfortune, the bootblack has exchanged his hat and suit-case with another passenger's, leaving him with an unfamiliar hat, case, and fine belongings. The mysterious "great man" who summoned him to Chicago awaits, but Calvert now faces missing his crucial appointment. Other serials include Stephen Chalmers's "Knights of the Caribbee," H. Rider Haggard's "Morning Star," and Charles Willing Beale's "Miss Jack of Tibet." Short stories include works by James Francis Dwyer and Albert Payson Terhune. Thomas E. Grant provides a complete novel, "The Wizard of the Peak."