LL TO THE SUFFERING POOR" _Facing p._ 4

"THE WHOLE CONTENTS AND THE PLATTER AS WELL FELL AT MY FEET" 13

"HER SLIGHT LITTLE FIGURE CONVULSED WITH GRIEF" 40

"AND THEN THERE CAME A RIPPING SOUND" 52

"I, OF COURSE, DID NOT TELL HENRIETTA OF EIGHT BEAUTIES I HAD
KEPT OUT" 54

"'AFTER WHICH HE WILL COME TO NEWPORT'" 62

"MR. BOLIVAR WAS DULY IMPRESSED WITH THE EXTENT OF HENRIETTE'S
FORTUNE" 66

ONE OF THE BENEFICIARIES AT PALM BEACH 82

"IT WAS NOT ALWAYS EASY TO GET THE RIGHT LIGHT" 90

"ALL WAS AS HENRIETTE HAD FORETOLD" 94

"'IF YOU WANTED A LAKE, MR. HIGGINBOTHAM, I--'" 110

"AS KEEN AND HIGH-HANDED A PERFORMANCE AS I EVER WITNESSED" 124

"ON HER WAY TO EARLY CHURCH I WAYLAID NORAH" 162

"HENRIETTE WAS TESTING THE FIFTY-THOUSAND-DOLLAR PIANO" 172

"MY MISERY IS DEEP BUT I AM BUOYED UP BY ONE GREAT HOPE" 178

Mrs. Raffles

I

THE ADVENTURE OF THE _HERALD_ PERSONAL

That I was in a hard case is best attested by the fact that when I had
paid for my Sunday _Herald_ there was left in my purse just one
tuppence-ha'penny stamp and two copper cents, one dated 1873, the other
1894. The mere incident that at this hour eighteen months later I can
recall the dates of these coins should be proof, if any were needed, of
the importance of the coppers in my eyes, and therefore of the relative
scarcity of funds in my possession. Raffles was dead--killed as you may
remember at the battle of Spion Kop--and I, his companion, who had never
known want while his deft fingers were able to carry out the plans of
that insinuating and marvellous mind of his, was now, in the vernacular
of the American, up against it. I had come to the United States, not
because I had any liking for that country or its people, who, to tell
the truth, are too sharp for an ordinary burglar like myself, but
because with the war at an end I had to go somewhere, and English soil
was not safely to be trod by one who was required for professional
reasons to evade the eagle eye of Scotland Yard until the Statute of
Limitations began to have some bea