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| Sport Royal: | ||
| Chapter I. | The Sequel to the Ball, | [1] |
| “II. | At the Hôtel Magnifique, | [31] |
| “III. | The Mission of the Ruby, | [54] |
| A Tragedy in Outline, | [99] | |
| A Malapropos Parent, | [102] | |
| How they Stopped the “Run,” | [115] | |
| A Little Joke, | [126] | |
| A Guardian of Morality, | [139] | |
| Not a Bad Deal, | [154] | |
| Middleton’s Model, | [169] | |
| My Astral Body, | [185] | |
| The Nebraska Loadstone, | [204] | |
| A Successful Rehearsal, | [216] | |
SPORT ROYAL.
An Extract from the Journals
of Julius Jason, Esquire.
CHAPTER I.
The Sequel to the Ball.
Heidelberg seems rather a tourist-ridden, hackneyed sort of place to be the mother of adventures. Nevertheless, it is there that my story begins. I had been traveling on the Continent, and came to Heidelberg to pay my duty to the castle, and recruit in quiet after a spell of rather laborious idleness at Homburg and Baden. At first sight I made up my mind that the place would bore me, and I came down to dinner at the hotel, looking forward only to a bad dinner and an early bed. The room was so full that I could not get a table to myself, and, seeing one occupied only by a couple of gentlemanly looking men, I made for it, and took the third seat, facing one of the strangers, a short, fair young man, with a little flaxen mustache and a soldierlike air, and having the other, who was older, dark, and clean-shaved, on my left. The fourth seat was empty.