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Title: King John of Jingalo
The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties

Author: Laurence Housman

Release Date: June 4, 2006 [EBook #18498]

Language: English

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KING JOHN OF JINGALO

THE STORY OF A MONARCH IN DIFFICULTIES

BY LAURENCE HOUSMAN

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1912

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. A Domestic Interior

II. Accidents Will Happen

III. Wild Oats and Widows' Weeds

IV. Popular Monarchy

V. Church and State

VI. Of Things not Expected

VII. The Old Order

VIII. Pace-making in Politics

IX. The New Endymion

X. King and Council

XI. A Royal Commission

XII. An Arrival and a Departure

XIII. A Promissory Note

XIV. Heads or Tails

XV. A Deed Without a Name

XVI. Concealment and Discovery

XVII. The Incredible Thing Happens

XVIII. The King's Night Out

XIX. The Spiritual Power

XX. The Thorn and the Flesh

XXI. Night-light

XXII. A Man of Business

XXIII. "Call Me Jack"

XXIV. The Voice of Thanksgiving

KING JOHN OF JINGALO

CHAPTER I

A DOMESTIC INTERIOR

I

The King of Jingalo had just finished breakfast in the seclusion of the
royal private apartments. Turning away from the pleasantly deranged
board he took up one of the morning newspapers which lay neatly folded
upon a small gilt-legged table beside him. Then he looked at his watch.

This action was characteristic of his Majesty: doing one thing always
reminded him that presently he would have to be doing another.
Conscientious to a fault, he led a harassed and over-occupied life,
which was not the less wearisome in its routine because n