Chapter I: Front Matter

THE SACK OF MONTE CARLO

=An Adventure of To-day=

As narrated by Vincent Blacker, Esq.
Lieutenant H.M.’s East ——shire Militia

BY
WALTER FRITH
AUTHOR OF “IN SEARCH OF QUIET”

_Quo timoris minus est, eo minus est Periculi_
LIVY, xii., 5

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1898

BY WALTER FRITH.

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IN SEARCH OF QUIET. A Country Journal, May
to July. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.25.

A very entertaining book, written in a very entertaining
style.—_Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette._
A book which will enchain the attention of the reader
from beginning to end.—_Boston Advertiser._
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NEW YORK AND LONDON:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.

Copyright, 1897, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
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_All rights reserved._

TO

MRS. F. W. SHARON

IN RECOLLECTION OF MANY HAPPY HOURS IN

NEW YORK, ÉTRETAT, AND PARIS

London, October, 1897

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I
Some Slight Explanation—Objects of the
Expedition—Love the Promoter—Lucy Thatcher—Her
Portrait by Lamplight 1

CHAPTER II
“The French Horn”—Mabel Harker: My Unfortunate
Engagement to Her—Mr. Crage and Wharton Park 7

CHAPTER III
I Continue to Keep Out of Mabel Harker’s Way and
Go to Goring—Return to “The French
Horn”—Wanderings with Lucy—Mr. Crage Rehearses
His Own Funeral 17

CHAPTER IV
I am Free of Mabel Harker—Return to “The French
Horn”—Disastrous Interference of Harold Forsyth
in My Affairs 25

CHAPTER V
Anglesey Lodge—My Interview with Lucy in
Kensington Gardens—Not so Satisfactory as I
could Desire 29

CHAPTER VI
Early Difficulties—I Fail to Persuade the
Honorable Edgar Fanshawe, the Reverend Percy
Blyth, and Mr. Parker White, M.P., to Join our
Monte Carlo Party 37

CHAPTER VII
I Interview Mr. Brentin—His Sympathy and
Interest—Sir Anthony Hipkins and the Yacht
_Amaranth_—We Determine to Look Over It 47

CHAPTER VIII
We Go to Ryde—The _Amaranth_—Accidental Meeting
with Arthur Masters and His Lady Friend—I Enroll
Him Among Us, Provisionally—We Decide to
Purchase the Yacht 60

CHAPTER IX
My Sister’s Suspicions—Heroes of _The Argo_—My
Sister Determines to Come with Us as Chaperon to
Miss Rybot 70

CHAPTER X
Mr. Brentin’s Indiscretion—Lucy and I Make It
Up—Bailey Thompson Appears in Church—On
Christmas Day we Hold a Council of War 77

CHAPTER XI
Mr. Bailey Thompson Gives us His Ingenious
Advice—We are Fools enough to Trust
Him—Misplaced Confidence 87

CHAPTER XII
Monte Carlo—Mr. Van Ginkel’s Yacht _Saratoga_—We
Prospect—Fortunate Discovery of the Point of
Attack—First Visit to the Rooms 95

CHAPTER XIII
Mrs. Wingham and Teddy Parsons—He Foolishly
Confides in Her—I Make a Similar Mistake 103

CHAPTER XIV
Arrival of the _Amaranth_—All Well on Board—Their
First Experience of the Rooms 111

CHAPTER XV
Influence of Climate on Adventure—Unexpected
Arrival of Lucy—Her Revelations—Danger Ahead 118

CHAPTER XVI
Council of War—Captain Evans’s Decision—I Go to
the Rooms and Confide in My Sister 127

CHAPTER XVII
Enter Mr. Bailey Thompson—Van Ginkel Stands by
Us—We Show Thompson Round and Explain
Details—Teddy Parsons’s Alarm 136

CHAPTER XVIII
Exit Mr. Bailey Thompson 146

CHAPTER XIX
The Great Night—Dinner at the “Hôtel de Paris”—A
Last Look Round—The Sack and Its
Incidents—Flight 151

CHAPTER XX
We Discover Teddy Parsons is Left Behind—I Make Up
My Mind—To the Rescue!—Unmanly Conduct of the
Others—I Go Alone—Disguise—The Garde Champêtre 171

CHAPTER XXI
In My Disguise I am Mistaken for Lord B.—A Club
Acquaintance—Teddy at the Law Courts—Mrs.
Wingham—The Defence and The Acquittal—We Bolt 185

CHAPTER XXII
Our Flight to Venice—Thence to Athens—We all Meet
on the Acropolis—Reappearance of Mr. Bailey
Thompson!—Again we Manage to Put Him Off the
Scent 202

CHAPTER XXIII
We Arrive Safe in London and Go to Medworth
Square—Back at “The French Horn”—News at Last of
the _Amaranth_—I Interview Mr. Crage and Find
Him Ill 219

CHAPTER XXIV
Arrival of Brentin—My Wedding-day—We Go to
Wharton—Bailey Thompson and Cochefort Follow
Us—We Finally Defeat Them Both 230

CONCLUSION 243

THE SACK OF MONTE CARLO
“_I don’t say that it is possible; I only affirm it to be true._”