PHILIP WINWOOD

"The bravest are the tenderest."

Bayard Taylor.

Works of ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS

An Enemy to the King
(Twenty-sixth Thousand)

The Continental Dragoon
(Seventeenth Thousand)

The Road to Paris
(Sixteenth Thousand)

A Gentleman Player
(Thirty-fifth Thousand)

Philip Winwood
(Fiftieth Thousand)

L.C. PAGE AND COMPANY, Publishers (Incorporated)
212 Summer St., Boston, Mass.

CAPTAIN PHILIP WINWOOD

PHILIP WINWOOD

A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.

Presented Anew by

Robert Neilson Stephens

Author of "A Gentleman Player," "An Enemy to the King," "The Continental Dragoon," "The Road to Paris," etc.

Illustrated by

E. W. D. Hamilton

Boston : L.C. PAGE & COMPANY (Incorporated) Mdcccc

1900

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

• PHILIP'S ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK
• THE FARINGFIELDS
• WHEREIN 'TIS SHOWN THAT BOYS ARE BUT BOYS
• HOW PHILIP AND I BEHAVED AS RIVALS IN LOVE
• WE HEAR STARTLING NEWS, WHICH BRINGS ABOUT A FAMILY "SCENE"
• NED COMES BACK, WITH AN INTERESTING TALE OF A FORTUNATE IRISHMAN
• ENEMIES IN WAR
• I MEET AN OLD FRIEND IN THE DARK
• PHILIP'S ADVENTURES—CAPTAIN FALCONER COMES TO TOWN
• A FINE PROJECT
• WINWOOD COMES TO SEE HIS WIFE
• THEIR INTERVIEW
• WHEREIN CAPTAIN WINWOOD DECLINES A PROMOTION
• THE BAD SHILLING TURNS UP ONCE MORE IN QUEEN STREET
• IN WHICH THERE IS A FLIGHT BY SEA, AND A DUEL BY MOONLIGHT
• FOLLOWS THE FORTUNES OF MADGE AND NED
• I HEAR AGAIN FROM WINWOOD
• PHILIP COMES AT LAST TO LONDON
• WE MEET A PLAY-ACTRESS THERE
• WE INTRUDE UPON A GENTLEMAN AT A COFFEE-HOUSE
• THE LAST, AND MOST EVENTFUL, OF THE HISTORY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CAPTAIN PHILIP WINWOOD

"OUR MOTIONS, AS WE TOUCHED OUR LIPS WITH THEM, WERE SO IN UNISON THAT MARGARET LAUGHED"

"SHE WAS INDEED THE TOAST OF THE ARMY"

"'HE IS A—AN ACQUAINTANCE'"

"HE FINALLY DREW BACK TO GIVE HER A MORE EFFECTUAL BLOW"

"IT WAS PHILIP'S CUSTOM, AT THIS TIME, TO ATTEND FIRST NIGHTS AT THE PLAYHOUSES"

PHILIP WINWOOD.

CHAPTER I.

Philip's Arrival in New York.

'Tis not the practice of writers to choose for biography men who have made no more noise in the world than Captain Winwood has; nor the act of gentlemen, in ordinary cases, to publish such private matters as this recital will present. But I consider, on the one hand, that Winwood's history contains as much of interest, and as good an example of manly virtues, as will be found in the life of many a hero more renowned; and, on the other, that his story has been so partially known, and so distorted, it becomes indeed the duty of a gentleman, when that gentleman was his nearest friend, to put forth that story truly, and so give the lie for ever to the detractors of a brave and kindly man.

There was a saying in the