Williamson Charles Norris. Rosemary in Search of a Father
CHAPTER ONE. THE WHITE GIRL ON THE TERRACE: THE ROSE GIRL AT THE CASINO
CHAPTER TWO. THE ROSE GIRL'S LITTLE STORY, AND GREAT EYES
CHAPTER THREE. WHEN THE CURTAIN WAS DOWN
CHAPTER FOUR. DOGS AND FATHERS
CHAPTER FIVE. ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHER
CHAPTER SIX. FAIRY FATHERS MUST VANISH
CHAPTER SEVEN. THE WHITE FIGURE AT THE DOOR
CHAPTER EIGHT. WHEN A MAN GOES SHOPPING
CHAPTER NINE. THE LAST WORD OF MADEMOISELLE
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HE ordered a lunch which he thought the girl would like, with wine to revive the faculties that he knew must be failing. Then, when she had eaten a little, daintily in spite of her hunger, he encouraged her to talk.
"Mother and I are all alone in the world," she said. "We are Belgian, and live in Brussels, but we have drifted about a good deal, just amusing ourselves. Somehow we never happened to come here until a month ago. Then my mother said one day in Paris, 'Let us go to Monte Carlo. I dreamed last night that I won twenty thousand francs there.' My mother is rather superstitious. We came, and she did win, at first. She was delighted, and believed in her dream, so much that when she began to lose, she went up and up, doubling each time. They call the game she made, 'playing the martingale!'
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"There's no danger. I'm a good business man, I assure you. I should pay a capable secretary like you – knowing several languages and all that – say forty dollars a week. That's about two hundred francs."
