"I'VE GOT YOU NOW."

PREFACE.

I have long been curious to know whether or not I could write a pretty good story, and now that the publishers are about to send the usual press copies of this book to the critics I am in a fair way to have my curiosity on that point satisfied.

CONTENTS.

[Chapter I.—Mr. Pagebrook gets up and Calls an Ancient Lawgiver ]11
[Chapter II.—Mr. Pagebrook is Invited to Breakfast ]22
[Chapter III.—Mr. Pagebrook Eats his Breakfast ]26
[Chapter IV.—Mr. Pagebrook Learns something about the Customs of the Country ]35
[Chapter V.—Mr. Pagebrook Makes Some Acquaintances ]42
[Chapter VI.—Mr. Pagebrook Makes a Good Impression ]48
[Chapter VII.—Mr. Pagebrook Learns Several Things ]54
[Chapter VIII.—Miss Sudie Makes an Apt Quotation ]61
[Chapter IX.—Mr. Pagebrook Meets an Acquaintance ]65
[Chapter X.—Chiefly Concerning "Foggy." ]70
[Chapter XI.—Mr. Pagebrook Rides ]79
[Chapter XII.—Mr. Pagebrook Dines with his Cousin Sarah Ann ]84
[Chapter XIII.—Concerning the Rivulets of Blue Blood ]95
[Chapter XIV.—Mr. Pagebrook Manages to be in at the Death ]102
[Chapter XV.—Some very Unreasonable Conduct ]109
[Chapter XVI.—What Occurred Next Morning ]118
[Chapter XVII.—In which Mr. Pagebrook Bids his Friends Good-by ]123
[Chapter XVIII.—Mr. Pagebrook Goes to Work ]128
[Chapter XIX.—A Short Chapter, not very interesting, perhaps, but of some Importance in the Story, as the Reader will probably discover after awhile ]134
[Chapter XX.—Cousin Sarah Ann Takes Robert's Part ]138
[Chapter XXI.—Miss Barksdale Expresses some Opinions ]143
[Chapter XXII.—Mr. Sharp Does His Duty ]150
[Chapter XXIII.—Mr. Pagebrook Takes a Lesson in the Law ]158
[Chapter XXIV.—Mr. Pagebrook Cuts himself loose from the Past and Plans a Future ]163
[Chapter XXV.—In which Miss Sudie Acts very Unreasonably ]166
[Chapter XXVI.—In which Miss Sudie Adopts the Socratic Method. ]175
[Chapter XXVII.—Mr. Pagebrook Accepts an Invitation to Lunch and another Invitation ]181
[Chapter XXVIII.—Major Pagebrook asserts himself ]188
[Chapter XXIX.—Mr. Barksdale, the Younger, Goes upon a Journey ]198
[Chapter XXX.—The younger Mr. Barksdale Asks to be put upon His Oath ]204
[Chapter XXXI.—Mr. William Barksdale Explains ]208
[Chapter XXXII.—Which Is also The Last ]216

ILLUSTRATIONS.

["I've got You Now." ]Frontispiece.
[Mr. Robert Pagebrook was "Blue." ]13
["I fall at once into a Chronic State of Washing up Things." ]57
["Foggy." ]73
[Cousin Sarah Ann ]87
[The Rivulets of Blue Blood ]98
[Miss Sudie declares herself "so glad." ]116
["Let him Serve it at once, then." ]156
["Very well, then." ]194
["I'm as Proud and as Glad as a Boy with Red Morocco Tops to his Boots." ]218