Category: Romance
A Whirl Asunder
“I think I’ll walk the rest of the way,” he said to the conductor. “Just look after my portmanteau, will you? and see that it is left at Yorba with my boxes.”
Chapters
1. CHAPTER I.
“I think I’ll walk the rest of the way,” he said to the conductor. “Just look after my portmanteau, will you? and see that it is left at Yorba with my boxes.”
2. CHAPTER II.At four o’clock Clive once more started for Yorba. He had not drunken six quarts of champagne, but he had commanded the respect of his comrades by the courage with which he had...
3. CHAPTER III.When Clive awoke and looked at his watch it was a quarter to three in the afternoon. He sprang out of bed in dismay. He was an ideal lover! If Mary Gordon sent him about his bus...
4. CHAPTER IV.He passed his nights in the Bohemian Club camp, his mornings in bed, the remaining hours wandering about with his betrothed; and felt that altogether life was not understood by...
5. CHAPTER V.“It’s about eighty years old,” said Rollins, “which is antique in this country. It belonged to one of the grandees of the old time, and Miss Belmont bought it shortly after her...
6. CHAPTER VI.When the men left the dining-room they found the women in the patio, or scattered about the corridor. There was no moon, but the clear sky blazed with stars, and colored lantern...
7. CHAPTER VII.Clive and Rollins exchanged few words on the drive home. Miss Belmont’s name was not mentioned. Clive’s feelings were mixed. He candidly admitted that his vanity was profoundly...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Helena Belmont saw little of her company for two days. She spent part of the time in the forest, the rest in her boudoir, a long room on the east side of the house opening into...
9. CHAPTER IX.The girls in their gayest muslin frocks, chaperoned by the more sedate Mrs. Cartwright, arrived at the camp at seven. A long table was spread under the redwoods near the bank of...
10. CHAPTER X.Mr. Van Rhuys returned the next morning. Helena and several of her guests drove over to the hotel station to meet him. The train was not due for some moments after their arrival...
11. CHAPTER XI.Clive drove over the next afternoon. He sat some distance from Helena at dinner, and afterward she and Mrs. Lent played billiards with himself and one of the other men for an ho...
12. CHAPTER XII.He did not see her alone again for two days, although he was with her constantly, and they had long talks apart. There were seven clever men at Casa Norte this time; all of the...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The next morning she awoke with a sudden pang of sympathy for Mary Gordon. Her intuitions were keener than they had ever been. She turned restlessly, then sprang out of bed and...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Clive would not sit up all night with Helena, but they spent hours of the day in the forest, and there was nothing funereal in his aspect when they were alone. One morning Helen...
15. CHAPTER XV.Helena did not meet her guests at dinner that night, nor did she trouble to send word that she was ill. She rang for the Chinese butler, gave him an order, then locked her doors...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Next morning the guests of Casa Norte were assembled in the court discussing Clive’s departure and waiting for the traps which would take them for their accustomed drive, when H...