In Her Own Right

by John Reed Scott

E-text prepared by Roger Frank, Darleen Dove,
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(http://www.pgdp.net)

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“TELL ME ALL ABOUT YOURSELF,” HE SAID
Page 328

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IN HER OWN RIGHT By JOHN REED SCOTT Author of “The Last Try,” “The Woman In Question,” “The Princess Dehra,” Etc. With Illustrations in Color By CLARENCE F. UNDERWOOD A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York

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Copyright, 1911

By John Reed Scott

Published May, 1911

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Dedicated

To

S. W. C.

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Contents

I.	Broken	[11]
II.	Good-bye	[23]
III.	Clarendon	[35]
IV.	Parmenter’s Bequest	[51]
V.	Miss Carrington	[68]
VI.	Confidence and Scruples	[88]
VII.	Greenberry Point	[104]
VIII.	Stolen	[120]
IX.	The Way Out	[135]
X.	Pirate’s Gold Breeds Pirate’s Ways	[150]
XI.	Elaine Cavendish	[170]
XII.	One Learned in the Law	[185]
XII.	I Could Tell Some Things	[203]
XIV.	The Symphony in Blue	[217]
XV.	An Old Ruse	[232]
XVI.	The Marabou Muff	[247]
XVII.	A Handkerchief and a Glove	[264]
XVIII.	The Lone House by the Bay	[281]
XIX.	Robert Parmenter’s Successors	[298]
XX.	The Check	[310]
XXI.	The Jewels	[321]

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Illustrations

	Page
“tell me all about yourself,” he said	[Frontispiece]
leading the wrong one, throwing the wrong one, matching pasteboards, that was all	[86]
he went out on the extreme edge, faced about, and stepped two hundred and fifty paces	[112]

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IN HER OWN RIGHT