ILLUSTRATIONS
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The three descended the grand stairway rapidly Frontispiece
A strongly-built, fairish young man of perhaps six and thirty 4
“My name is Longview” 16
Barney half a dozen chairs away glowering at Longview 26
He liked the very first glimpse of her 46
“As if we were a pair of new chimpanzees in a zoo” 70
“Just my rotten luck,” he muttered 90
“Then you’re not a Buddhist or a Spiritualist?” 130
“Forgive me—it was all my fault—yet not mine—good-bye—” 164
Cosimo, Prince di Rontivogli 200
“I can imagine many extenuating circumstances” 224
“I’ll give the guinea one more chance” 230
Found Nelly alone in the front parlour 258
“You may ask, sir, but I’ll not answer” 284
As soon as her father and mother were out of the way 296
“I take to it like a duck to water” 314
GOLDEN FLEECE