CONTENTS
Chapter I. AT LEAST I MEANT WELL
Chapter II. THE WAY IT BEGAN
Chapter III. I MIGHT HAVE KNOWN IT
Chapter IV. THE DOOR WAS CLOSED
Chapter V. FROM THE TREE OF LOVE
Chapter VI. A MIGHTY POOR JOKE
Chapter VII. WE MAKE AN OMELET
Chapter VIII. CORRESPONDENTS’ DEPARTMENT
Chapter IX. FLANNIGAN’S FIND
Chapter X. ON THE STAIRS
Chapter XI. I MAKE A DISCOVERY
Chapter XII. THE ROOF GARDEN
Chapter XIII. HE DOES NOT DENY IT
Chapter XIV. ALMOST, BUT NOT QUITE
Chapter XV. SUSPICION AND DISCORD
Chapter XVI. I FACE FLANNIGAN
Chapter XVII. A CLASH AND A KISS
Chapter XVIII. IT’S ALL MY FAULT
Chapter XIX. THE HARBISON MAN
Chapter XX. BREAKING OUT IN A NEW PLACE
Chapter XXI. A BAR OF SOAP
Chapter XXII. IT WAS DELIRIUM
Chapter XXIII. COMING
Needles and pins Needles and pins, When a man marries His trouble begins.
When the dreadful thing occurred that night, every one turned on me. The injustice of it hurt me most. They said I got up the dinner, that I asked them to give up other engagements and come, that I promised all kinds of jollification, if they would come; and then when they did come and got in the papers and every one—but ourselves—laughed himself black in the face, they turned on ME! I, who suffered ten times to their one! I shall never forget what Dallas Brown said to me, standing with a coal shovel in one hand and a—well, perhaps it would be better to tell it all in the order it happened.
It began with Jimmy Wilson and a conspiracy, was helped on by a foot-square piece of yellow paper and a Japanese butler, and it enmeshed and mixed up generally ten respectable members of society and a policeman. Incidentally, it involved a pearl collar and a box of soap, which s