[Illustration: "Two of the police had now arrived." (Page 295)]

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"Similia similibus curantur"

By G.J. Whyte-Melville

CONTENTS
CHAPTERS
Chapter I ["Small and Early"]
Chapter II ["Nightfall"]
Chapter III [Tom Ryfe]
Chapter IV [Gentleman Jim]
Chapter V [The Cracksman's Checkmate]
Chapter VI [A Reversionary Interest]
Chapter VII [Dick Stanmore]
Chapter VIII [Nina]
Chapter IX [The Usual Difficulty]
Chapter X [The Fairy Queen]
Chapter XI [In the Scales]
Chapter XII ["A Cruel Parting"]
Chapter XIII [Sixes and Sevens]
Chapter XIV [The Officers' Mess]
Chapter XV [Mrs. Stanmore at Home]
Chapter XVI ["Missing--A Gentleman"]
Chapter XVII ["Wanted--A Lady"]
Chapter XVIII ["The Coming Queen"]
Chapter XIX [An Incubus]
Chapter XX ["The Little Cloud"]
Chapter XXI [Furens Quid Fæmina]
Chapter XXII ["Not for Joseph"]
Chapter XXIII [Anonymous]
Chapter XXIV [Parted]
Chapter XXV [Coaxing a Fight]
Chapter XXVI [Baffled]
Chapter XXVII [Blinded]
Chapter XXVIII [Beat]
Chapter XXIX [Night-Hawks]
Chapter XXX [Under the Acacias]

M. or N.

"Similia similibus curantur"

CHAPTER I