The Place of Honeymoons

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Harold MacGrath. The Place of Honeymoons

The Place of Honeymoons

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

AT THE STAGE DOOR

CHAPTER II

THERE IS A WOMAN?

CHAPTER III

THE BEAUTIFUL TIGRESS

CHAPTER IV

THE JOKE OF MONSIEUR

CHAPTER V

CAPTIVE OR RUNAWAY

CHAPTER VI

THE BIRD BEHIND BARS

CHAPTER VII

BATTLING JIMMIE

CHAPTER VIII

MOONLIGHT AND A PRINCE

CHAPTER IX

COLONEL CAXLEY-WEBSTER

CHAPTER X

MARGUERITES AND EMERALDS

CHAPTER XI

AT THE CRATER’S EDGE

CHAPTER XII

DICK COURTLANDT’S BOY

CHAPTER XIII

EVERYTHING BUT THE TRUTH

CHAPTER XIV

A COMEDY WITH MUSIC

CHAPTER XV

HERR ROSEN’S REGRETS

CHAPTER XVI

THE APPLE OF DISCORD

CHAPTER XVII

THE BALL AT THE VILLA

CHAPTER XVIII

PISTOLS FOR TWO

CHAPTER XIX

COURTLANDT TELLS A STORY

CHAPTER XX

JOURNEY’S END

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Harold MacGrath

Published by Good Press, 2019

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“Oh, if only he had taken me for a ride in the taxicab!” She bubbled again with merriment.

Suddenly she sprang up, as if inspired, and dashed into another room, a study. She came back with pen and ink, and with a celerity that came of long practise, drew five straight lines across the faint violet face of the bank-note. Within these lines she made little dots at the top and bottom of stubby perpendicular strokes, and strange interlineal hieroglyphics, and sweeping curves, all of which would have puzzled an Egyptologist if he were unused to the ways of musicians. Carefully she dried the composition, and then put the note away. Some day she would confound him by returning it.

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