FAR ABOVE RUBIES. A Novel. BY MRS. J. H. RIDDELL, AUTHOR OF “GEORGE GEITH,” “CITY AND SUBURB,” “TOO MUCH ALONE,” “THE RACE FOR WEALTH,” ETC., ETC. _IN THREE VOLUMES._ VOL. III. LONDON: TINSLEY BROTHERS, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND. 1867. [_The Right of Translation and Reproduction reserved._] LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. CONTENTS OF VOL. III. CHAPTER I. PAGE A GLIMPSE OF THE CANVAS 1 CHAPTER II. GREAT SUCCESSES 18 CHAPTER III. “LIKE A MAN’S HAND” 43 CHAPTER IV. AT KEMMS PARK 67 CHAPTER V. THE PAPER WAR 89 CHAPTER VI. FOR EVERMORE 115 CHAPTER VII. IN BERRIE DOWN LANE 145 CHAPTER VIII. WOMAN TO WOMAN 171 CHAPTER IX. DIFFICULTIES 199 CHAPTER X. THE BUBBLE BURSTS 225 CHAPTER XI. FORGOTTEN 251 CHAPTER XII. THE BITTERNESS OF DEATH 267 CHAPTER XIII. SUNSET AT BERRIE DOWN 298 FAR ABOVE RUBIES. CHAPTER I. A GLIMPSE OF THE CANVAS. Whether the moneys, with a memorandum of which the promoter so obligingly furnished him, had ever come into his hands or not, Arthur Dudley still felt a certain sense of having been cheated—of having been made the cat’s-paw wherewith Mr. Black’s chestnuts were drawn out of the fire. He knew, although to the letter Mr. Black’s statements might be correct, still that in the spirit he had deceived him grossly. He was perfectly well aware the meaning conveyed to him by the Company “paying all,” was that he, Arthur Dudley, should never have to meet a single bill, nor be a penny the worse for the money he had advanced to float the Protector.