LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS[Clare Sheridan]Frontispiece[George Gray Barnard, describing his cloisters to Clare Sheridan]72[Lady Randolph Churchill]154[Margaret, who is being brought up in England, like a conventionally proper little girl]226[Dick sailing his battleship in the turbulent Mexican river]272[The “Russian Castle” in the “Land of Make-Believe”]302[“Charlie” in his dressing-gown on his Moorish sunbathed veranda]340[“Charlie” tells Dick the story of the wrecked ship on the beach]348