Category: Novels
Joan Carthew had reason to believe that it was her birthday, and she had signalised the occasion by running away from home. But her birthday, and her home, and her running away, were all so different from things with the same name in the lives of other children, that the celeb...
Joan Carthew had reason to believe that it was her birthday, and she had signalised the occasion by running away from home. But her birthday, and her home, and her running away,...
10. CHAPTER X--The Coup of "The PlanetAbout half-past five, a plump old country-woman, with a brown tissue veil over her ruddy, wrinkled face, waddled into a green-grocer's not far from South Audley Street. She bade...
6. CHAPTER VI--The Tenants of Roseneath ParkAbout the first of May, when Cornwall was at its loveliest, everybody within twenty miles of Toragel (a village famed for its beauty and antiquity, as artists and tourists know)...
11. CHAPTER XI--Kismet and a V.C.It was at Biarritz, where she was enjoying, as she put it to herself, a well-earned holiday; and she was known at her hotel, and among the few acquaintances she had made, as the...
8. CHAPTER VIII--Lord Northmuir's Young RelativeAwakened and informed of what had happened, the housekeeper called the doctor, who looked at the body and certified that death had resulted from failure of the heart, which must...
3. CHAPTER III--A Deal in CleriosGeorge Gallon had lately left a well-known firm of stockbrokers, in which he had been junior partner, and set up business on his own account. He had started at a trying time, ab...
4. CHAPTER IV--The Steam Yacht _TitaniaShe did wait, for three-quarters of an hour; and at the end of that time the manager received a reply to his letter. In consequence, he told Joan that Lady John Bevan would see...
7. CHAPTER VII--The Woman Who KnewJoan went straight from Cornwall to London and the Bloomsbury boarding-house in which some of her curiously earned money was invested. All was to begin over again now; but to th...
9. CHAPTER IX--A Journalistic MissionIt is like stating that the world is round to say that London is the best of hiding-places. It is the best, because there are many Londons, and one London knows practically noth...
5. CHAPTER V--The Landlady at Woburn PlaceJoan had no difficulty in selling _Titania_ for Lady John Bevan, to a Swiss millionaire, the proprietor of a popular chocolate, who was disporting himself on the Riviera that wi...
2. CHAPTER II--The Old Lady's NephewAt first there was no question of formal adoption. Joan simply stayed on and was allowed to feel that she had a right to stay. Gallon did all he could to oust her, for his mind...
12. CHAPTER XII--A New Love and an Old EnemyNow, the thin end of the entering wedge, of which Joan had hinted, was well in, and after this day events moved swiftly. The Comtesse de Merival and Miss Ffrench were close frie...