PHILIP WINWOOD.]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. PHILIP'S ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK

II. THE FARINGFIELDS

III. WHEREIN 'TIS SHOWN THAT BOYS ARE BUT BOYS

IV. HOW PHILIP AND I BEHAVED AS RIVALS IN LOVE

V. WE HEAR STARTLING NEWS, WHICH BRINGS ABOUT A
FAMILY "SCENE"

VI. NED COMES BACK, WITH AN INTERESTING TALE OF A
FORTUNATE IRISHMAN

VII. ENEMIES IN WAR

VIII. I MEET AN OLD FRIEND IN THE DARK

IX. PHILIP'S ADVENTURES--CAPTAIN FALCONER COMES
TO TOWN

X. A FINE PROJECT

XI. WINWOOD COMES TO SEE HIS WIFE

XII. THEIR INTERVIEW

XIII. WHEREIN CAPTAIN WINWOOD DECLINES A PROMOTION

XIV. THE BAD SHILLING TURNS UP ONCE MORE IN
QUEEN STREET

XV. IN WHICH THERE IS A FLIGHT BY SEA, AND A DUEL
BY MOONLIGHT

XVI. FOLLOWS THE FORTUNES OF MADGE AND NED

XVII. I HEAR AGAIN FROM WINWOOD

XVIII. PHILIP COMES AT LAST TO LONDON

XIX. WE MEET A PLAY-ACTRESS THERE

XX. WE INTRUDE UPON A GENTLEMAN AT A COFFEE-HOUSE

XXI. THE LAST, AND MOST EVENTFUL, OF THE HISTORY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CAPTAIN PHILIP WINWOOD Frontispiece

"OUR MOTIONS, AS WE TOUCHED OUR LIPS WITH THEM, WERE
SO IN UNISON THAT MARGARET LAUGHED"

"SHE WAS INDEED THE TOAST OF THE ARMY"

"'HE IS A--AN ACQUAINTANCE'"

"HE FINALLY DREW BACK TO GIVE HER A MORE EFFECTUAL BLOW"

"IT WAS PHILIP'S CUSTOM, AT THIS TIME, TO ATTEND FIRST
NIGHTS AT THE PLAYHOUSES"

CHAPTER I.

_Philip's Arrival in New York._

'Tis not the practice of writers to choose for biography men who have
made no more noise in the world than Captain Winwood has; nor the act
of gentlemen, in ordinary cases, to publish such private matters as
this recital will present. But I consider, on the one hand, that
Winwood's history contains as much of interest, and as good an example
of manly virtues, as will be found in the life of many a hero more
renowned; and, on the other, that his story has been so partially
known, and so distorted, it becomes indeed the duty of a gentleman,
when that gentleman was his nearest friend, to put forth that story
truly, and so give the lie for ever to the detractors of a brave and
kindly man.

There was a saying in the American army, proceeding first from Major
Harry Lee, of their famous Light Horse, that Captain Winwood was in
America, in the smaller way his modesty permitted, what the Chevalier
Bayard was in France,