LONDON

1902

CONTENTS

[BOOK I.--THE SLEEPING MAN]

CHAP.
I.[A SIDE SHOW.]
II.[LADY DESMOND GIVES A DINNER PARTY.]
III.[CROSS-QUESTIONS AND CROOKED ANSWERS.]
IV.[MR. MONTAGU BABBACOMBE AWAKES.]
V.[AT THE YORK HOTEL.]
VI.[A MESSAGE FROM THE MARQUIS.]
VII.[MR. FOSTER INTERRUPTS.]
VIII.[DYING.]
IX.[DEAD.]
X.[AND BURIED.]

[BOOK II.--THE LOST HUSBAND]

XI.[AN ENCOUNTER IN PICCADILLY.]
XII.[MRS. MERRETT IS OVER-PERSUADED.]
XIII.[WHO'S THAT CALLING?]
XIV.[HELPING TO MAKE THE PUDDING.]
XV.[HE NEW PEER: AND HIS MOTHER.]
XVI.[MR. FITZHOWARD OPENS THE DOOR.]
XVII.[THE MARCHIONESS IN SPITE OF HERSELF.]
XVIII.[MR. HOWARTH AGAINST THE WORLD.]
XIX.[IN TELEPATHIC COMMUNICATION.]
XX.[THE OPENING OF THE COFFIN.]

[BOOK III.--THE GENTLEMAN WITH NINE LIVES]

XXI.[A PEER IN EMBRYO.]
XXII.[A MARQUIS IN FACT.]
XXIII.[SURPRISES.]
XXIV.[AN IDYLL.]
XXV.[A REVERSION FROM THE IDYLLIC.]
XXVI.[THE SCALES OF JUSTICE.]
XXVII.[A WHIPPING BOY.]
XXVIII.[THE GOING: AND THE COMING.]

[BOOK IV.--THE SINNER]

XXIX.[BACK TO THE WORLD.]
XXX.[THE ONE MAN--AND THE OTHER.]
XXXI.[AN INTERIOR.]
XXXII.[THE LAST JOURNEY TO TWICKENHAM HOUSE.]
XXXIII.[THE TWINKLE IN THE FATHER'S EYES.]
XXXIV.[THE PENITENT.]

[BOOK I.--THE SLEEPING MAN]

THE STORY IS BEGUN BY THE HON.
DOUGLAS HOWARTH

CHAPTER I

[A SIDE SHOW]

'You and I can never marry.'

Edith's words had been in my thoughts ever since she had uttered them. All night; all the morning; now that in the afternoon I had come out to take the air. I was strolling from the club to George Douglas's rooms in Ashley Gardens. More for the sake of the exercise than in the desire of seeing him. As I was passing the Abbey I glanced at the Aquarium on my right. My eye was caught by the words on a board which ran right across the front of the building, 'At No Place In The World Can So Many Sights Be Seen.' I hesitated. It was years since I had been in the place. One might as well spend half an hour beneath its roof as with George Douglas. I crossed the road and entered.