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Title: Lord Stranleigh Abroad

Author: Robert Barr

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LORD STRANLEIGH ABROAD

by

ROBERT BARR

Author of "Young Lord Stranleigh," "Lord Stranleigh,
Philanthropist," "The Mutable Many," etc.

Ward, Locke & Co., Limited
London, Melbourne, and Toronto
1913

[Illustration: "'Why did you wish to murder me?'" (Page 189.)
_Frontispiece_]

CONTENTS.

PAGE

I.--LORD STRANLEIGH ALL AT SEA 7

II.--AN AUTOMOBILE RIDE 49

III.--THE GOD IN THE CAR 87

IV.--THE MAD MISS MATURIN 125

V.--IN SEARCH OF GAME 164

VI.--THE BUNK HOUSE PRISONER 209

VII.--THE END OF THE CONTEST 259

LORD STRANLEIGH ABROAD.

I.--LORD STRANLEIGH ALL AT SEA.

A few minutes before noon on a hot summer day, Edmund Trevelyan
walked up the gang-plank of the steamship, at that moment the largest
Atlantic liner afloat. Exactly at the stroke of twelve she would leave
Southampton for Cherbourg, then proceed across to Queenstown, and
finally would make a bee-line west for New York. Trevelyan was costumed
in rough tweed of subdued hue,