Category: Novels
IT was shortly after nine o’clock in the morning that young Lord Stranleigh of Wychwood, in a most leisurely fashion, descended the front steps of his town house into the street. The young man was almost too perfectly dressed. Every article of his costume, from his shiny hat t...
IT was shortly after nine o’clock in the morning that young Lord Stranleigh of Wychwood, in a most leisurely fashion, descended the front steps of his town house into the street...
2. CHAPTER II--THE PREMATURE COMPROMISETHE Camperdown Club in Pall Mall is famous for its cuisine, and young Lord Stranleigh of Wychwood provided a lunch on the day of the great coup that was notable even in the Camp...
3. CHAPTER III--THE MISSION OF “THE WOMAN IN WHITETHE breakfast room of Lord Stranleigh’s town house was a most cheerful apartment, and the young man who entered sat down to a repast which was at once abundant and choice. The a...
4. CHAPTER IV--THE MAGNET OF THE GOLD FIELDTHE young and energetic Mackeller completed his purchase of the steamer _Rajah_ in something less than three hours, instead of taking the two days which Lord Stranleigh had allo...
5. CHAPTER V--AN INVITATION TO LUNCH“Yes, you were right on one point and wrong on another. I confess I did not believe in the floating mine, because it is not an article you can buy at every ironmonger’s; but you...
6. CHAPTER VI--AN ATTACK ON THE HIGH SEAS“Yes,” he said at last, “he was in England a week later than we were, and must have come direct to this spot, passing us somewhere on the way; during the night, probably.”
7. CHAPTER VII--THE CAPTAIN OF THE “RAJAH” STRIKES OIL“Yes, you do, and a good deal of it. I thought at first that Frowningshield was the sole culprit, and that you were merely an innocent victim. I learned to-day that such was not...
8. CHAPTER VIII--THE “RAJAH” GETS INTO LEGAL DIFFICULTIESA CAB from the London terminus speedily deposited Lord Stranleigh at his favorite club in Pall Mall. Two acquaintances coming down the steps nodded to him casually, so casually...
9. CHAPTER IX--THE FINAL FINANCIAL STRUGGLE WITH SCHWARTZBRODARRIVING at Redruth, Stranleigh sent off three telegrams, one instructing his chief solicitors in London to request the leading marine lawyer of Plymouth to call upon him at onc...
10. CHAPTER X--THE MEETING WITH THE GOVERNOR OF THE BANKTHE mere accumulating of money does not call for a high, order of intelligence. A stealthy craft is more valuable in that business than the intellect of a Shakespeare. The low c...