MR. INCOUL’S MISADVENTURE BY THE SAME AUTHOR: _THE PHILOSOPHY OF DISENCHANTMENT._ Crown 8vo. “Mr. Saltus is a scientific pessimist, as witty, as bitter, as satirical, as interesting and as insolent to humanity in general as are his great teachers, Schopenhauer and Von Hartmann.”--_Worcester Spy._ _THE ANATOMY OF NEGATION._ Crown 8vo. “A whole library of pessimism compressed into one small volume by a writer whose understanding of the value of words amounts almost to genius.”--_Chicago Herald._ “The work is remarkable in every way and its originality and power will compel for it more than an ephemeral existence, for independently of the force with which it deals with its theme its literary merits are of a high order, and its reflections are those of a bold, brilliant and able thinker.”--_Boston Saturday Review._ IN PREPARATION, _CIMMERIA_. MR. INCOUL’S MISADVENTURE A NOVEL BY EDGAR SALTUS _And thine eye shall not pity._ _Deuteronomy, XIX. 21._ [Illustration] NEW YORK BENJAMIN & BELL M DCCC LXXXVII Copyright, 1887, by EDGAR SALTUS GILLISS BROTHERS & TURNURE THE ART AGE PRESS 400 & 402 WEST 14TH STREET, N. Y. TO E. A. S. CONTENTS. CHAPTER. PAGE I. Mr. Incoul, 11 II. Miss Barhyte Agrees to Change her Name, 18 III. After Darkness, 30 IV. An Evening Call, 42 V. A Yellow Envelope, 51 VI. Biarritz, 68 VII. What may be Seen from a Palco, 84 VIII. An Unexpected Guest, 101 IX. Mr. Incoul Dines in Spain, 114 X. The Point of View, 127 XI. The House in the Parc Monceau, 138 XII. Mr. Incoul is Preoccupied, 146 XIII. What may be Heard in a Greenroom, 155 XIV. Karl Grows a Moustache, 163 XV. May Expostulates, 178 XVI. The Bare Bodkin, 188 XVII. Maida’s Nuptials, 202 XVIII. Mr. Incoul Goes over the Accounts, 211 CHAPTER I. MR. INCOUL.