So the story began well, and Harley for a time was quite happy. At
the end of a week, however, he had a fearful set-back. Count Bonetti
was ready to be presented to Marguerite according to the plan, but
there the schedule broke down.
Harley's heroine took a new and entirely unexpected tack.
CHAPTER IV: A CHAPTER FROM HARLEY, WITH NOTES
"Good-bye, proud world, I'm going home.
Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine."
- EMERSON.
I think the reader will possibly gain a better idea of what happened
at the Howlett dance, at which Count Bonetti was to have been
presented to Miss Andrews, if I forego the pleasure of writing this
chapter myself, and produce instead the chapter of Stuart Harley's
ill-fated book which was to have dealt with that most interesting
incident. Having relinquished all hope of ever getting that
particular story into shape without a change of heroine, and being
unwilling to go to that extreme, Mr. Harley has very kindly placed
his manuscript at my disposal.
"Use it as you will, my dear fellow," he said, when I asked him for
it.
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