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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Cynthia's Chauffeur, by Louis Tracy, Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy
Title: Cynthia's Chauffeur
Author: Louis Tracy
Release Date: March 2, 2010 [eBook #31472]
Language: English
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Cynthia’s Chauffeur
BY
LOUIS TRACY
AUTHOR OF
THE WINGS OF THE MORNING,
A SON OF THE IMMORTALS, ETC., ETC.
Illustrations by
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1910, by
EDWARD J. CLODE
Entered at Stationers’ Hall
“There is no lovelier garden in England than at Wells Palace.”CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Hired Car | 1 |
| II. | The First Day’s Run | 23 |
| III. | Some Emotions—without a Moral | 47 |
| IV. | Shadows—with Occasional Gleams | 72 |
| V. | A Flurry on the Mendips | 94 |
| VI. | A Midsummer Night’s Vagaries | 119 |
| VII. | Wherein Cynthia Takes Her Own Line | 143 |
| VIII. | Breakers Ahead | 167 |
| IX. | On the Wye | 191 |
| X. | The Hidden Founts of Evil | 216 |
| XI. | The Parting of the Ways | 239 |
| XII. | Masques, Ancient and Modern | 260 |
| XIII. | Wherein Wrath Beguiles Good Judgment | 283 |
| XIV. | —And Good Judgment Yields To Folly | 307 |
| XV. | The Outcome | 324 |
| XVI. | The End of One Tour: the Beginning Of Another |
344 |
CYNTHIA’S CHAUFFEUR
CHAPTER I
THE HIRED CAR
Derby Day fell that year on the first Wednesday in June. By a whim of the British climate, the weather was fine; in fact, no rain had fallen on southern England since the previous Sunday. Wise after the event, the newspapers published cheerful “forecasts,” and certain daring “experts” discussed the probabilities of a heat wave. So London, on that bright Wednesday morning, was agog with excitement over its annual holiday; and at such a time London is the gayest and liveliest city in the