CONTENTS PART I THE DAMSEL CHAPTER ONE YOUNG POWELL AND HIS CHANCE . CHAPTER TWO THE FYNES AND THE GIRL-FRIEND THRIFT AND THE CHILD THE GOVERNESS THE TEA-PARTY FLORA ON THE PAVEMENT CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN PAGE 3 60 88 122 149 179 CONTENTS vii PART II THE KNIGHT CHAPTER ONE PAGE THE FERNDALE . . . . . .233 CHAPTER TWO YOUNG POWELL SEES AND HEARS . . . .247 CHAPTER THREE DEVOTED SERVANTS AND THE LIGHT OF A FLARE . CHAPTER FOUR 269 ANTHONY AND FLORA . . . . .295 CHAPTER FIVE THE GREAT DE BARRAL . . . .316 CHAPTER SIX . . . A MOONLESS NIGHT, GHT, THICK WH WITH STARS ABOVE, VERY DARK ON THE WATER . . . .36 PART I THE DAMSEL CHAPTER ONE YOUNG POWELL AND HIS CHANCE T BELIEVE he had seen us out of the window coming I off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new...