E-text prepared by Roger Frank, Darleen Dove, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 27454-h.htm or 27454-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/7/4/5/27454/27454-h/27454-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/7/4/5/27454/27454-h.zip) IN HER OWN RIGHT by JOHN REED SCOTT Author of "The Last Try," "The Woman In Question," "The Princess Dehra," Etc. With Illustrations in Color By Clarence F. Underwood [Illustration: "TELL ME ALL ABOUT YOURSELF," HE SAID _Page 328_] A. L. Burt Company Publishers New York Copyright, 1911 by John Reed Scott Published May, 1911 DEDICATED TO S. W. C CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Broken 11 II. Good-bye 23 III. Clarendon 35 IV. Parmenter's Bequest 51 V. Miss Carrington 68 VI. Confidence and Scruples 88 VII. Greenberry Point 104 VIII. Stolen 120 IX. The Way Out 135 X. Pirate's Gold Breeds Pirate's Ways 150 XI. Elaine Cavendish 170 XII. One Learned in the Law 185 XII. I Could Tell Some Things 203 XIV. The Symphony in Blue 217 XV. An Old Ruse 232 XVI. The Marabou Muff 247 XVII. A Handkerchief and a Glove 264 XVIII. The Lone House by the Bay 281 XIX. Robert Parmenter's Successors 298 XX. The Check 310 XXI. The Jewels 321 ILLUSTRATIONS Page "TELL ME ALL ABOUT YOURSELF," HE SAID _Frontispiece_ LEADING THE WRONG ONE, THROWING THE WRONG ONE, MATCHING PASTEBOARDS, THAT WAS ALL 86 HE WENT OUT ON THE EXTREME EDGE, FACED ABOUT, AND STEPPED TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY PACES 112 IN HER OWN RIGHT I BROKEN "The expected has happened, I see," said Macloud, laying aside the paper he had been reading, and raising his hand for a servant. "I thought it was the unexpected that happens," Hungerford drawled, languidly. "What do you mean?" "Royster & Axtell have been thrown into bankruptcy. Liabilities of twenty million, assets problematical." "You don't say!" ejaculated Hungerford, sitting up sharply. "Have they caught any of our friends?" "All who dealt with them, I reckon." "Too bad! Too bad!--Well, they didn't catch me."