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Title: The Second Honeymoon

Author: Ruby M. Ayres

Release Date: January 2, 2006 [eBook #17446]

Language: English

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THE SECOND HONEYMOON

by

RUBY M. AYRES

Author of A Bachelor Husband, The Scar, Etc.

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers
Made in the United States of America
Copyright, 1921, by
W. J. Watt & Company

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I THE PAST INTERVENES
II JILTED!
III THE TWO WOMEN
IV JIMMY GETS NEWS
V SANGSTER TAKES A HAND
VI JIMMY DEMANDS THE TRUTH
VII LOVE AND POVERTY
VIII THE SECOND ENGAGEMENT
IX MOTHERLESS
X JIMMY HAS A VISITOR
XI HUSBAND AND WIFE
XII SANGSTER IS CONSULTED
XIII CHRISTINE HEARS THE TRUTH
XIV BITTERNESS
XV SANGSTER SPEAKS IN RIDDLES
XVI THE PAST RETURNS
XVII JIMMY BREAKS OUT
XVIII KETTERING HEARS SOMETHING
XIX A CHANCE MEETING
XX LOVE LOCKED OUT
XXI THE COMPACT
XXII TOO LATE!
XXIII THE UNEXPECTED

THE SECOND HONEYMOON

CHAPTER I

THE PAST INTERVENES

James Challoner, known to his friends and intimates as Jimmy, brushed
an imaginary speck of dust from the shoulder of his dinner jacket, and
momentarily stopped his cheery whistling to stare at himself in the
glass with critical eyes.

Jimmy was feeling very pleased with himself in particular and the world
in general. He was young, and quite passably good-looking, he had
backed a couple of winners that day for a nice little sum, and he was
engaged to a woman with whom he had been desperately in love for at
least three months.

Three months was a long time for Jimmy Challoner to be in love (as a
rule, three days was the outside limit which he allowed himself), but
this--well, this was the real thing at last--the real, romantic thing
of which author chaps and playwright Johnnies wrote; the thing which
sweeps a man clean off his feet and paints the world with rainbow tints.

Jimmy Challoner was sure o