The Port of Adventure

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C. N. Williamson. The Port of Adventure

The Port of Adventure

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

"Nick thought her adorable in her gray motor bonnet"

I. IN A GARDEN

II. NICK

III. THE ANNIVERSARY

IV. A GIRL IN MOURNING

V. WHAT HAPPENED IN THE NIGHT

VI. WHEN THE TABLES WERE TURNED

VII. A POLICE MYSTERY

VIII. THE GOLD BAG COMEDY

IX. THE LAST ACT OF THE GOLD BAG COMEDY

X. WHEN ANGELA WENT SIGHTSEEING

XI. THE MAN AT THE WHEEL

XII. THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY OF MAKE-BELIEVE

XIII. FOR THE SAKE OF DRAMATIC EFFECT

"Santa Barbara Mission, with its history and romance"

XIV. THE MYSTERY OF SAN MIGUEL

XV. THE WISE BIRD IN THE DARK

XVI. ANGELA AT HER WORST

XVII. SEVENTEEN-MILE DRIVE

"Angela was enchanted with the peninsula of Monterey"

"They weren't trees, but people, either nymphs or witches"

XVIII. LA DONNA È MOBILE

XIX. THE CITY OF ROMANCE

XX. THE DOOR WITH THE RED LABEL

XXI. "WHO IS MRS. MAY?"

XXII. THE BOX OF MYSTERY

XXIII. THE HAPPY VALLEY

XXIV. THE BEST THING IN HER LIFE

"The world was a sea, billowing with mountains"

XXV. THE BROKEN MELODY

XXVI. AN INVITATION FROM CARMEN

XXVII. SIMEON HARP

XXVIII. THE DARK CLOUD IN THE CRYSTAL

XXIX. THE PARTING OF THE WAYS

XXX. THE MAKING OF A GENTLEMAN

XXXI. THE BREAKING OF THE SPELL

XXXII. AN END—AND A BEGINNING

THE END

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C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Wherever she decided to live, the house must be like the one where her father had been born—long and low built of adobe; there must be a patio, with a fountain in the middle; and the rooms must be kept cool by the roof of a veranda, shading the windows like a great overhanging eyelid. Lovely flowers she would have, of course, but the garden must be as unlike an Italian garden as possible. Italy was beautiful, but she did not wish to be reminded of that country, or any other in Europe where she had wandered in search of forgetfulness.

She had little fear that ghosts of the past would come to haunt her in her new home, for though the Prince di Sereno had once cared for her in his way, she had struck at his pride and made him hate her in the end. At last he had been glad to let her go out of his life, for she had made arrangements by which he kept more than half her money. There was no danger that he would try to snatch her back again; and as for European friends and acquaintances, it was unlikely that such worldly persons would care to come to the place she meant to select. It would be far from the paths of tourists.

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