The Princess Passes

								


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THE PRINCESS PASSES
A Romance of a Motor-Car
by
C. N. and A. M. WILLIAMSON
Authors of The Lightning Conductor
Illustrated
New York
Henry Holt and Company
1905

TO
THE DEAR PRINCESS
WHO, EACH YEAR, MAKES THE RIVIERA SUNNIER FOR HER PRESENCE

CONTENTS
CHAPTER



     I. WOMAN DISPOSES



    II. MERCÉDÈS TO THE RESCUE



   III. MY LESSON



    IV. POTS, KETTLES, AND OTHER THINGS



     V. IN SEARCH OF A MULE



    VI. THE WINGS OF THE WIND



   VII. AT LAST!


VIII. THE MAKING OF A MYSTERY



    IX. THE BRAT



     X. THE SCRAPING OF ACQUAINTANCE



    XI. A SHADOW OF NIGHT



   XII. THE PRINCESS


XIII. AFTERNOON CALLS



   XIV. THE PATH OF THE MOON



    XV. ENTER THE CONTESSA



   XVI. A MAN FROM THE DARK


XVII. THE LITTLE GAME OF FLIRTATION


XVIII. RANK TYRANNY



   XIX. THE LITTLE RIFT WITHIN THE LUTE



    XX. THE GREAT PAOLO



   XXI. THE CHALLENGE


XXII. AN AMERICAN CUSTOM


XXIII. THERE IS NO SUCH GIRL


XXIV. THE REVENGE OF THE MOUNTAIN



   XXV. THE AMERICANS


XXVI. THE VANISHING OF THE PRINCE


XXVII. THE STRANGE MUSHROOM
XXVIII. THE WORLD WITHOUT THE BOY


XXIX. THE FAIRY PRINCE'S RING



   XXX. THE DAY OF SUSPENSE


XXXI. THE BOY'S SISTER

ILLUSTRATIONS
"FOOD FOR THE GODS, AND ONLY A BOY TO EAT IT" (Frontispiece)
"WE REALLY WANT YOU, SAID MOLLY"
"SOMETIMES JACK DROVE, WITH MOLLY BESIDE HIM"
"THE BLUE FLAME OF THE CHAFING-DISH"
"I WAS SUDDENLY CLAPPED UPON THE SHOULDER"
"TREADING THE ROAD BUILT BY NAPOLÉON"
"THERE WAS A PANG WHEN I TURNED MY BACK"
"THAT IS THE DÉJEUNER OF NAPOLÉON"
"DOWN, TURK!" "BE QUIET, JUPITER!"
"ON THE GROUND CROUCHED THE BOY"
"'DO YOU KNOW,' SAID I, 'YOU ARE A VERY QUEER BOY'"
"LOOKING OUT OF THE WINDOW I SAW HIM IN CONVERSATION"
"SITTING WITH MY BACK TO THE HORSES"
"HERE WE WERE AT ANNECY"
"VOILÀ MONSIEUR!"
"THE ROCK OF MONACO"

CHAPTER I
Woman Disposes



    "Away, away, from men and towns,

     To the wild wood and the downs,

       To the silent wilderness."

              --PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

"To your happiness," I said, lifting my glass, and looking the girl in
the eyes. She had the grace to blush, which was the least that she
could do, for a moment ago she had jilted me.
The way of it was this.
I had met her and her mother the winter before at Davos, where I had
been sent after South Africa, and a spell of playing fast and loose