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The Port of Adventure By: Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920) |
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By Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
1913 Published in Great Britain under the title: The Love Pirate.
BY THE SAME AUTHORS LORD LOVELAND DISCOVERS AMERICA
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHER
LADY BETTY ACROSS THE WATER
MY FRIEND THE CHAUFFEUR
THE LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR
THE GUESTS OF HERCULES
THE PRINCESS VIRGINIA
THE GOLDEN SILENCE
THE CAR OF DESTINY
THE MOTOR MAID
THE CHAPERON
SET IN SILVER
THE HEATHER MOON TO THREE FRIENDS IN CALIFORNIA CONTENTS CHAPTER I. IN A GARDEN
II. NICK
III. THE ANNIVERSARY
IV. A GIRL IN MOURNING
V. WHAT HAPPENED IN THE NIGHT
VI. WHEN THE TABLES WERE TURNED
VII. A POLICE MYSTERY
VIII. THE GOLD BAG COMEDY
IX. THE LAST ACT OF THE GOLD BAG COMEDY
X. WHEN ANGELA WENT SIGHTSEEING
XI. THE MAN AT THE WHEEL
XII. THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY OF MAKE BELIEVE
XIII. FOR THE SAKE OF DRAMATIC EFFECT
XIV. THE MYSTERY OF SAN MIGUEL
XV. THE WISE BIRD IN THE DARK
XVI. ANGELA AT HER WORST
XVII. SEVENTEEN MILE DRIVE
XVIII. LA DONNA È MOBILE
XIX. THE CITY OF ROMANCE
XX. THE DOOR WITH THE RED LABEL
XXI. "WHO IS MRS. MAY?"
XXII. THE BOX OF MYSTERY
XXIII. THE HAPPY VALLEY
XXIV. THE BEST THING IN HER LIFE
XXV. THE BROKEN MELODY
XXVI. AN INVITATION FROM CARMEN
XXVII. SIMEON HARP
XXVIII. THE DARK CLOUD IN THE CRYSTAL
XXIX. THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
XXX. THE MAKING OF A GENTLEMAN
XXXI. THE BREAKING OF THE SPELL
XXXII. AN END AND A BEGINNING
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS "Nick thought her adorable in her gray motor bonnet" "Santa Barbara Mission, with its history and romance" "Angela was enchanted with the peninsula of Monterey" "They weren't trees, but people, either nymphs or witches" "The world was a sea, billowing with mountains"
PROLOGUE On a great ship a woman sailed away from the Old World, wishing to forget.
In her mind was the thought of a far off place toward which she was
travelling. There were no figures in this mental picture. She painted it
as a mere flowery background; for she was very tired of people. In the New World, a man lived and worked, and dreamed when he had time. Between this woman and this man lay six thousand miles of land and sea.
They were two, among many millions, and they did not know of each other's
existence. There was no visible reason why they ever should know, or why
they should ever meet. Yet, sometimes when the moon shone on the sea, the
woman said to herself that the bright path paving the water with gold
seemed to lead on and on beyond the horizon, as if it might go all the way
to the Golden Gate. And the Golden Gate is the Port of Adventure, where
every unexpected thing can happen.
I IN A GARDEN
"I wonder what makes Nick so late?" Carmen Gaylor thought, hovering in the
doorway between the dim, cool hall and the huge veranda that was like an
out of doors drawing room. Though she spoke English well almost as well as if she had not been born
in Spain and made her greatest successes in the City of Mexico Carmen
thought in Spanish, for her heart was Spanish, and her beauty too. She was always handsome, but she was beautiful as she came out into the
sunset gold which seemed meant for her, as stage lights are turned on for
the heroine of a play; and there was something about Carmen which
suggested strong drama. Even the setting in which she framed herself was
like an ideal scene for a first act. The house was not very old, and not really Spanish, but it had been
designed by an architect who knew Carmen, with the purpose of giving a
Spanish effect. He had known exactly the sort of background to suit her, a
background as expensive as picturesque; a millionaire husband had paid for
it. There were many verandas and pergolas, but this immense out of doors
room had wide archways instead of pillars, curtained with white and purple
passion flowers; and the creamy stucco of the house wall, and the ruddy
Spanish tiles, which already looked mellow with age, were half hidden with
climbing roses and grapevines... Continue reading book >>
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