Mrs. F. W. SHARON
IN RECOLLECTION OF MANY HAPPY HOURS IN
NEW YORK, ÉTRETAT, AND PARIS
London, October, 1897
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| Some Slight Explanation—Objects of the Expedition—Love the Promoter—Lucy Thatcher—Her Portrait by Lamplight | [1] |
| CHAPTER II | |
| “The French Horn”—Mabel Harker: My Unfortunate Engagement to Her—Mr. Crage and Wharton Park | [7] |
| CHAPTER III | |
| I Continue to Keep Out of Mabel Harker’s Way and Go to Goring—Return to “The French Horn”—Wanderings with Lucy—Mr. Crage Rehearses His Own Funeral | [17] |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| I am Free of Mabel Harker—Return to “The French Horn”—Disastrous Interference of Harold Forsyth in My Affairs | [25] |
| CHAPTER V | |
| Anglesey Lodge—My Interview with Lucy in Kensington Gardens—Not so Satisfactory as I could Desire | [29] |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| Early Difficulties—I Fail to Persuade the Honorable Edgar Fanshawe, the Reverend Percy Blyth, and Mr. Parker White, M.P., to Join our Monte Carlo Party | [37] |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| I Interview Mr. Brentin—His Sympathy and Interest—Sir Anthony Hipkins and the Yacht Amaranth—We Determine to Look Over It | [47] |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| We Go to Ryde—The Amaranth—Accidental Meeting with Arthur Masters and His Lady Friend—I Enroll Him Among Us, Provisionally—We Decide to Purchase the Yacht | [60] |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| My Sister’s Suspicions—Heroes of The Argo—My Sister Determines to Come with Us as Chaperon to Miss Rybot | [70] |
| CHAPTER X | |
| Mr. Brentin’s Indiscretion—Lucy and I Make It Up—Bailey Thompson Appears in Church—On Christmas Day we Hold a Council of War | [77] |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| Mr. Bailey Thompson Gives us His Ingenious Advice—We are Fools enough to Trust Him—Misplaced Confidence | [87] |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| Monte Carlo—Mr. Van Ginkel’s Yacht Saratoga—We Prospect—Fortunate Discovery of the Point of Attack—First Visit to the Rooms | [95] |
| CHAPTER XIII | |
| Mrs. Wingham and Teddy Parsons—He Foolishly Confides in Her—I Make a Similar Mistake | [103] |
| CHAPTER XIV | |
| Arrival of the Amaranth—All Well on Board—Their First Experience of the Rooms | [111] |
| CHAPTER XV | |
| Influence of Climate on Adventure—Unexpected Arrival of Lucy—Her Revelations—Danger Ahead | [118] |
| CHAPTER XVI | |
| Council of War—Captain Evans’s Decision—I Go to the Rooms and Confide in My Sister | [127] |
| CHAPTER XVII | |
| Enter Mr. Bailey Thompson—Van Ginkel Stands by Us—We Show Thompson Round and Explain Details—Teddy Parsons’s Alarm | [136] |
| CHAPTER XVIII | |
| Exit Mr. Bailey Thompson | [146] |
| CHAPTER XIX | |
| The Great Night—Dinner at the “Hôtel de Paris”—A Last Look Round—The Sack and Its Incidents—Flight | [151] |
| CHAPTER XX | |
| We Discover Teddy Parsons is Left Behind—I Make Up My Mind—To the Rescue!—Unmanly Conduct of the Others—I Go Alone—Disguise—The Garde Champêtre | [171] |
| CHAPTER XXI | |
| In My Disguise I am Mistaken for Lord B.—A Club Acquaintance—Teddy at the Law Courts—Mrs. Wingham—The Defence and The Acquittal—We Bolt | [185] |
| CHAPTER XXII | |
| Our Flight to Venice—Thence to Athens—We all Meet on the Acropolis—Reappearance of Mr. Bailey Thompson!—Again we Manage to Put Him Off the Scent | [202] |
| CHAPTER XXIII | |
| We Arrive Safe in London and Go to Medworth Square—Back at “The French Horn”—News at Last of the Amaranth—I Interview Mr. Crage and Find Him Ill | [219] |
| CHAPTER XXIV | |
| Arrival of Brentin—My Wedding-day—We Go to Wharton—Bailey Thompson and Cochefort Follow Us—We Finally Defeat Them Both | [230] |
| CONCLUSION | [243] |
THE SACK OF MONTE CARLO