New York

Copyright, 1914,
by
Henry Holt and Company

Published February, 1914

Dedicated to The Spirit of Fiction

CONTENTS

PART I

CHAPTER PAGE

0. SAPPS COURT 3
I. DAVE AND HIS FAMILY 6
II. A SHORTAGE OF MUD 16
III. DAVE'S ACCIDENT 24
IV. BACK FROM THE HOSPITAL 30
V. MRS. PRICHARD 40
VI. THE STORY OF THE TWINS 45
VII. DAVE'S CONVALESCENT HAVEN 60
VIII. DAVE'S RETURN TO SAPPS COURT 72
IX. A VERDICT OF DEATH BY DROWNING 84
X. AT THE TOWERS 93
XI. MR. PELLEW AND MISS DICKENSON 110
XII. THE MAN WHO WAS SHOT 117
XIII. AN INQUIRY FOR A WIDOW 127
XIV. A SUCCESSFUL CAPTURE 134
XV. WHAT AUNT M'RIAR OVERHEARD 150
XVI. THE INNER LIFE OF SAPPS COURT 156
XVII. HOW ADRIAN WAS NURSED AT THE TOWERS 171
XVIII. HOW GWEN AND THE COUNTESS VISITED ADRIAN 185
XIX. GWEN'S VERY BAD NIGHT 200
XX. SLOW AND FAST APPROXIMATION 208
XXI. A RAPID ARRIVAL 220
XXII. A CONFESSION AND ITS EFFECTS 239
XXIII. GWEN'S VISIT TO MRS. MARRABLE 258
XXIV. THE SLOW APPROXIMATION GOES SLOWLY ON 272
XXV. A GAME OF WHIST 282
XXVI. HOW AUNT M'RIAR'S STORY CAME OUT 293
XXVII. HOW SAPPS HEARD A VISITOR WAS COMING 312
XXVIII. GWEN'S VISIT, AND WHAT ENDED IT 320
XXIX. HOW THE SLOW COUPLE BECAME ENGAGED 331
XXX. GWEN'S ACCOUNT OF THE CRASH 351
XXXI. MRS. PRICHARD AT CAVENDISH SQUARE 364
XXXII. AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS 379

PART II

CHAPTER PAGE

I. AUNT M'RIAR'S HUSBAND 389
II. GWEN'S VISIT TO PENSHAM 412
III. HOW THE TWINS SAW EACH OTHER 429
IV. MAISIE AT THE TOWERS 444
V. MOTHERWARDS IN THE DARK 461
VI. HOW MAISIE LOVED POMONA 474
VII. GWEN'S NIGHT-FLIGHT TO LONDON 4