MRS. RADIGAN

HER BIOGRAPHY, WITH THAT OF MISS
PEARL VEAL, AND THE MEMOIRS
OF J. MADISON MUDISON

BY

NELSON Lloyd

AUTHOR OF "THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEY," ETC.

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1905

Copyright, 1905, by
Charles Scribner's Sons
Published, September, 1905

TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. [The First Chapter and the Last] [1]
II. [My First Great Social Adventure—The Horse-show with the Radigans] [21]
III. [A Week-end at Westbury] [33]
IV. [In the New Box at the Opera] [41]
V. [Mrs. Radigan's First Thursday] [48]
VI. [The Monday Cotillons] [57]
VII. [Mrs. Radigan Captures Miss Bumpschus] [65]
VIII. [The Small Dance at Flurry's] [73]
IX. [Our Talk Over Tea] [81]
X. [Miss Veal's Engagement is Announced] [89]
XI. [An Awfully Good Time] [96]
XII. [We Inspect the New House] [103]
XIII. [We Go Skating at Exudo] [114]
XIV. [Exit Plumstone Smith, Jr.] [123]
XV. [My Dinner to Miss Pearl Veal] [130]
XVI. [Mrs. Radigan's Costume-ball] [139]
XVII. [The Duke of Nocastle Arrives] [149]
XVIII. [A Problem for the Duke] [158]
XIX. [His Grace Still Hesitates] [168]
XX. [Sir Charles Wigge Takes Possession] [180]
XXI. [Pearl Veal's Answer to the Duke of Nocastle] [193]
XXII. [Tumbleton Tumm, the Minstrel] [205]
XXIII. [The Wedding of the Season] [215]
XXIV. [Mrs. Radigan Being Smart, Becomes Clever] [230]
XXV. [Pearl Veal and I] [244]
XXVI. [In which Mr. Mudison in His" Memoirs Gives Us Some Insight into Mrs. Radigan's Shattered Romance] [257]
XXVII. [ Mr. Mudison Gives a Theatre-Party for Mrs. Underbunk] [270]
XXVIII. [Mr. Mudison Sees Mrs. Underbunk at the Opera] [283]
XXIX. [Mr. Mudison Leads the Cotillon at the Twitters'] [297]
XXX. [At the Races] [313]
XXXI. [Mr. Mudison is Uncomfortable but Happy] [328]