MRS. DARRELL [Illustration] [Illustration: “‘I DON’T THINK MRS. DARRELL CAN SEE YOU AGAIN.’”] MRS. DARRELL BY FOXCROFT DAVIS AUTHOR OF “DESPOTISM AND DEMOCRACY” _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILLIAM SHERMAN POTTS_ New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1905 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1905. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. CONTENTS PAGE _Chapter One_ 1 _Chapter Two_ 30 _Chapter Three_ 49 _Chapter Four_ 63 _Chapter Five_ 71 _Chapter Six_ 80 _Chapter Seven_ 95 _Chapter Eight_ 118 _Chapter Nine_ 150 _Chapter Ten_ 175 _Chapter Eleven_ 210 _Chapter Twelve_ 220 _Chapter Thirteen_ 245 _Chapter Fourteen_ 269 _Chapter Fifteen_ 289 _Chapter Sixteen_ 307 _Chapter Seventeen_ 356 _Chapter Eighteen_ 370 ILLUSTRATIONS “‘I don’t think Mrs. Darrell can see you again’” _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE “‘Oh, papa!’ she said, ‘save my little pearl heart’” 6 “... She caught him by the arm and whispered, ‘And could you leave me?’” 64 “Baskerville took Anne out to dinner” 138 “The little park was wholly deserted except for themselves” 236 “The next minute she was fast in Baskerville’s arms” 280 MRS. DARRELL _Chapter One_