"He saw the Princess for the first time that afternoon"

"'Don't you intend to present me to Lady Deppingham?'"

"'No,' she said to herself, 'I told him I was keeping them for him'"

"He felt that Genevra was still looking into his eyes"




THE MAN FROM BRODNEY'S




CHAPTER I

THE LATE MR. SKAGGS


The death of Taswell Skaggs was stimulating, to say the least,
inapplicable though the expression may seem.

He attained the end of a hale old age by tumbling aimlessly into the
mouth of a crater on the island of Japat, somewhere in the mysterious
South Seas. The volcano was not a large one and the crater, though
somewhat threatening at times, was correspondingly minute, which