AN ACCIDENTAL HONEYMOON ------------------------------------------------------------------------ By DAVID POTTER I FASTEN A BRACELET "Fine Character Drawing" Colored Frontispiece by Martin Justice 12mo, decorated cloth, $1.25 net. -------------- THE LADY OF THE SPUR "A Story of Strong Men and Healthy Women" Colored Frontispiece by Clarence F. Underwood 12mo, decorated cloth, $1.50 J. B. Lippincott Company PUBLISHERS PHILADELPHIA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: ALL THAT GOLDEN AFTERNOON THEY SAILED, AND ALL THE AFTERNOON THEY TALKED (Page 135)] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AN ACCIDENTAL HONEYMOON By DAVID POTTER Author of "The Lady of the Spur," "I Fasten a Bracelet," etc. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY GEORGE W. GAGE AND DECORATIONS BY EDWARD STRATTON HOLLOWAY [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1911 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 1911 PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILLUSTRATIONS All that Golden Afternoon They Sailed, and all the Afternoon They Talked "But You've Been Standing in the Water all This Time! What am I Thinking of!" He Waved His Hat from the Gate Miss Yarnell Mounted the Pair of Steps from the Cabin "I'm Afraid You'll Find the Cabin-Door Catch is Broken," said Madge Yarnell in an Undertone "Good-Morning, Patience-on-a-Monument" "Betty, Allow Me to Drink Your Health in Jersey Molly Wine" All the Chivalry in Fessenden's Nature Stirred at Her Words ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MR. FRANCIS CHARLES MCDONALD, OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, IS THE AUTHOR OF THE POEM, "BOB WHITE," MADE USE OF IN THIS STORY. I BEG TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE FOR HIS PERMISSION TO AVAIL MYSELF OF IT.