Front matter

“TELL ME ALL ABOUT YOURSELF,” HE SAID Page 328

IN HER OWN RIGHT By JOHN REED SCOTT Author of “The Last Try,” “The Woman In Question,” “The Princess Dehra,” Etc. With Illustrations in Color By CLARENCE F. UNDERWOOD A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York

Copyright, 1911

By John Reed Scott

Published May, 1911

Dedicated

To

S. W. C.

Contents

I. Broken 11

II. Good-bye 23

III. Clarendon 35

IV. Parmenter’s Bequest 51

V. Miss Carrington 68

VI. Confidence and Scruples 88

VII. Greenberry Point 104

VIII. Stolen 120

IX. The Way Out 135

X. Pirate’s Gold Breeds Pirate’s Ways 150

XI. Elaine Cavendish 170

XII. One Learned in the Law 185

XII. I Could Tell Some Things 203

XIV. The Symphony in Blue 217

XV. An Old Ruse 232

XVI. The Marabou Muff 247

XVII. A Handkerchief and a Glove 264

XVIII. The Lone House by the Bay 281

XIX. Robert Parmenter’s Successors 298

XX. The Check 310

XXI. The Jewels 321

Illustrations

Page

“tell me all about yourself,” he said Frontispiece

leading the wrong one, throwing the wrong one, matching pasteboards, that was all 86

he went out on the extreme edge, faced about, and stepped two hundred and fifty paces 112

IN HER OWN RIGHT