ME ACQUAINTED WITH MY WIFE 180

IV. TELLS IN WHAT A STARTLING MANNER I LEARNED THAT I WAS
NOT ALONE IN GRADEN SEA-WOOD 189

V. TELLS OF AN INTERVIEW BETWEEN NORTHMOUR, CLARA, AND
MYSELF 197

VI. TELLS OF MY INTRODUCTION TO THE TALL MAN 202

VII. TELLS HOW A WORD WAS CRIED THROUGH THE PAVILION WINDOW 208

VIII. TELLS THE LAST OF THE TALL MAN 214

IX. TELLS HOW NORTHMOUR CARRIED OUT HIS THREAT 221

A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT 227

THE SIRE DE MALETROIT'S DOOR 250

PROVIDENCE AND THE GUITAR 273

NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS

TO

ROBERT ALAN MOWBRAY STEVENSON

IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR YOUTH AND THEIR ALREADY OLD AFFECTION

NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS

THE SUICIDE CLUB

STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH THE CREAM TARTS

During his residence in London, the accomplished Prince Florizel of
Bohemia gained the affection of all classes by the seduction of his
manner and by a well-considered generosity. He was a remarkable man even
by what was known of him; and that was but a small part of what he
actually did. Although of a placid temper in ordinary circumstances, and
accustomed to take the world with as much philosophy as any ploughman,
the Prince of Bohemia was not without a taste for ways of life more
adventurous and eccentric than that to which he was destined by his
birth. Now and then, when he fell into a low humour, when there was no
laughable play to witness in any of the London theatres, and when the
season of the year was unsuitable to those field sports in which he
excelled all competitors, he would summon his confidant and Master of
the Horse, Colonel Geraldine, and bid him prepare himself against an
evening ramble. The Master of the Horse was a young officer of a brave
and even temerarious disposition. He greeted the news with delight, and
hastened to make ready. Long practice and a varied acquaintance of life
had given him a singular facility in disguise; he could adapt, not only
his face and bearing, but his voice and almost his thoughts, to those of
any rank, character, or nation; and in this way he diverted attention
from the Prince, and sometimes ga