CONTENTS

[ILLUSTRATIONS]
[Chapter I]
[Chapter II]
[Chapter III]
[Chapter IV]
[Chapter V]
[Chapter VI]
[Chapter VII]
[Chapter VIII]
[Chapter IX]
[Chapter X]
[Chapter XI]
[Chapter XII]
[Chapter XIII]
[Chapter XIV]
[Chapter XV]

ILLUSTRATIONS

["Every time I get alone I just giggle myself into spasms. Isn't it the funniest?"]

[It was a friendly young face he saw there, but troubled]

["I feared he was discommoding you," ventured the Countess, elegantly apologetic]

["Daughter!" said Breede with half a glance at the flapper]

[In that instant Bean read the flapper's look, the look she had puzzled him with from their first meeting]

["Oh, put up your trinkets!" said Bean, with a fine affectation of weariness]

[Thereafter, until late at night, the red car was trailed by the taxi-cab]

["Lumbago!" said Bean, both hands upon the life-belt]