ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1914

1897, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS


Were Nature just to Man from his first hour, he need not ask for Mercy; then 'tis for us—the toys of Nature—to be both just and merciful, for so only can the wrongs she does be undone.


CONTENTS

ChapterPage
[I. ]The Fifth Day Of April, 16761
[II. ]"He Is The King"13
[III. ]Sir Jeoffry Wildairs26
[IV. ]"God Have Mercy On Its Evil Fortunes"35
[V. ]My Lord Marquess Plunges Into The Thames55
[VI. ]"No; She Has Not Yet Come To Court"65
[VII. ]"'Tis Clo Wildairs, Man—All The County Knows The Vixen"77
[VIII. ]In Which My Lady Betty Tantillion Writes Of A Scandal92
[IX. ]Sir John Oxon Lays A Wager At Cribb's Coffee House107
[X. ]My Lord Marquess Rides To Camylott119
[XI. ]"It Might Have Been—It Might Have Been!"133
[XII. ]In Which Is Sold A Portrait141
[XIII. ]"Your—Grace!"158
[XIV. ]"For All Her Youth—There Is No Other Woman Like Her"179
[XV. ]"And 'Twas The Town Rake And Beauty—Sir John Oxon"190
[XVI. ]A Rumour197
[XVII. ]As Hugh De Mertoun Rode217
[XVIII. ]A Night In Which My Lord Duke Did Not Sleep235
[XIX. ]"Then You Might Have Been One Of Those—"248
[XX. ]At Camylott261
[XXI. ]Upon The Moor274
[XXII. ]My Lady Dunstanwolde Is Widowed299
[XXIII. ]Her Ladyship Returns To Town319
[XXIV. ]Sir John Oxon Returns Also337
[XXV. ]To-Morrow351
[XXVI. ]A Dead Rose363
[XXVII. ]"'Twas The Night Thou Hidst The Package In The Wall"381
[XXVIII. ]Sir John Rides Out Of Town394
[XXIX. ]At The Cow At Wickben405
[XXX. ]On Tyburn Hill423
[XXXI. ]Their Graces Keep Their Wedding Day At Camylott440
[XXXII. ]In The Turret Chamber—And In Camylott Wood457