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
I
TWO hours after Surrey’s letter came his sister Gwen rode over to Beauvais House eager to tell Evelyn the news of his luck in America. It was almost five o’clock in the beautiful autumn afternoon, and she found Evelyn at tea on the porch that looks out upon the Italian garden.