G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Copyright, 1908
By G. W. DILLINGHAM CO.
The Sacred Herb Issued Jan., 1908
CONTENTS | |
| CHAPTER. | |
| [I.] | The Latest Sensation |
| [II.] | The Trial |
| [III.] | The Paper-Cutter |
| [IV.] | Evidence for the Prosecution |
| [V.] | Mrs. Rover's Masked Ball |
| [VI.] | A Startling Discovery |
| [VII.] | Shepworth Explains |
| [VIII.] | A Private Explanation |
| [IX.] | Dr. Horace |
| [X.] | The Verdict |
| [XI.] | Dr. Horace's Warning |
| [XII.] | Mrs. Dolly Rover |
| [XIII.] | Lanwin Grange |
| [XIV.] | Mrs. Blexey's Opinion |
| [XV.] | Jadby plays a Card |
| [XVI.] | Dr. Horace Intervenes |
| [XVII.] | The Old, Old Story |
| [XVIII.] | The Power of the Herb |
| [XIX.] | Circumstantial Evidence |
| [XX.] | Mr. Rover Explains |
| [XXI.] | A Possible Scandal |
| [XXII.] | The Unexpected |
| [XXIII.] | Helpless |
| [XXIV.] | The Beginning of the End |
| [XXV.] | Explanations |
| [XXVI.] | A Confession |
| [XXVII.] | All's well that ends well |
The Sacred Herb
[CHAPTER I.]
THE LATEST SENSATION
Lord Prelice felt desperately bored. Like Xeres, he longed for some new pleasure, yet knew not where to look for one. This was the result of being surfeited with the sweets of extraordinary good fortune. Born to a title, endowed with passable good looks, gifted with abilities above the average, and possessed of admirable health, he should have been the happiest of men; the more especially as his income ran well into five figures, and he had the whole wide world to play with. Certainly he had played with it and with life, up to his present age of thirty-five years. Perhaps this was the reason of his acute boredom. If all work and no play makes Jack dull; all play and no work must necessarily make him blase.
Therefore, in spite of the excellent breakfast spread before him on this bright summer morning, when London was looking at its best, the young man was ungratefully wondering what he could do to render life endurable. He ate from habit and not because he enjoyed his food; he read the morning papers, since it was necessary to be abreast of the times, for conversational purposes, although very little was new therein and still less was true. By the time he arrived at the marmalade stage of the meal he was again considering the possibilities of the next four and twenty hours. In this discontented frame of mind he was discovered by his aunt.