ILLUSTRATIONS

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The three descended the grand stairway rapidly [Frontispiece]
A strongly-built, fairish young man of perhaps six and thirty	[ 4]
“My name is Longview”	[ 16]
Barney half a dozen chairs away glowering at Longview	[ 26]
He liked the very first glimpse of her	[ 46]
“As if we were a pair of new chimpanzees in a zoo”	[ 70]
“Just my rotten luck,” he muttered	[ 90]
“Then you’re not a Buddhist or a Spiritualist?”	[ 130]
“Forgive me—it was all my fault—yet not mine—good-bye—”	[ 164]
Cosimo, Prince di Rontivogli	[ 200]
“I can imagine many extenuating circumstances”	[ 224]
“I’ll give the guinea one more chance”	[ 230]
Found Nelly alone in the front parlour	[ 258]
“You may ask, sir, but I’ll not answer”	[ 284]
As soon as her father and mother were out of the way	[ 296]
“I take to it like a duck to water”	[ 314]

GOLDEN FLEECE