Chapter I: Front Matter

MR. WADDY’S RETURN

BY
THEODORE WINTHROP

Author of “Cecil Dreeme,” etc.

EDITED BY
BURTON E. STEVENSON

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1904

Copyright, 1904
By
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

_Published October, 1904_

THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS
RAHWAY, N. J.

PUBLISHERS’ NOTE

The author did not live to revise the original draft of “Mr. Waddy’s Return,” and therefore, when his other novels were published, shortly after his death, this one was not included. On looking it over again, after the lapse of years, it seemed to his sister, Miss Elizabeth W. Winthrop, too good to let die; and it was placed in the hands of Mr. Stevenson to give it such revision and condensation as it may be presumed that the author, had he lived, would have given it himself.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A REMARKABLE EPISODE, HITHERTO UNRECORDED,
IN THE VOYAGE OF THE “MAYFLOWER” 1

II. THE WADDYS OF DULLISH COURT, FROM WHITEGIFT
TO OUR HERO 6

III. IN WHICH MR. WADDY REACHES HALIFAX AND
MEETS WITH A MISADVENTURE 13

IV. A GENTLE LADY OF FORTUNE DECIDES TO FACE
A STORM 24

V. A WRECK AND A RESCUE 30

VI. IN WHICH MISS SULLIVAN FINDS MANY REASONS
FOR DEPARTURE 40

VII. A PEPPERY INVALID WHO DREAMS DREAMS AND
BRINGS BAD NEWS 50

VIII. MR. WADDY MUSES UPON FATE AND UNDERTAKES
A COMMISSION 58

IX. THE NABOB RE-ENTERS CIVILISATION 65

X. OUR HERO RENEWS HIS YOUTH IN THE WARMTH
OF AN OLD FRIENDSHIP 73

XI. IN WHICH THE READER IS ALLOWED TO WORSHIP
AT THE SHRINE 88

XII. THE PARABLE OF A HUMBLE BEAST OF BURDEN
AND OF LILIES THAT TOIL NOT 97

XIII. THE READER IS PRESENTED TO TWO CHARMING
GIRLS, AND SO IS MAJOR GRANBY 107

XIV. PROTECTIVE SCANDALS AND OTHER DIVERTING
HUMOURS OF A FASHIONABLE WATERING-PLACE 126

XV. MR. WADDY RECEIVES A LETTER AND GETS OUT
HIS PISTOLS 148

XVI. IN WHICH MR. HORACE BELDEN PROSPERS CERTAIN
PLANS 163

XVII. MR. BELDEN CONTEMPLATES VILLAINIES NEW
AND OLD 177

XVIII. THE BRAVE PREPARE FOR A RACE, THE FAIR
FOR A PICNIC 184

XIX. MISS CENTER’S BIRTHDAY PARTY AND WHAT
OCCURRED THEREAT 196

XX. CHIN CHIN AND PETER SKERRETT SEIZE THE
FORELOCK OF OPPORTUNITY 220

XXI. THE STORY OF DIANA AND ENDYMION 233

XXII. IN WHICH MR. BELDEN REACHES THE END OF
HIS ROPE 241

XXIII. A VOYAGE OF UNKNOWN LENGTH 258

XXIV. MR. WADDY ACCOMPLISHES HIS RETURN 266

MR. WADDY’S RETURN