MRS. RADIGAN MRS. RADIGAN HER BIOGRAPHY, WITH THAT OF MISS PEARL VEAL, AND THE MEMOIRS OF J. MADISON MUDISON BY NELSON Lloyd AUTHOR OF "THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEY," ETC. NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1905 Copyright, 1905, by Charles Scribner's Sons _Published, September, 1905_ TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. The First Chapter and the Last 1 II. My First Great Social Adventure--The Horse-show with the Radigans 21 III. A Week-end at Westbury 33 IV. In the New Box at the Opera 41 V. Mrs. Radigan's First Thursday 48 VI. The Monday Cotillons 57 VII. Mrs. Radigan Captures Miss Bumpschus 65 VIII. The Small Dance at Flurry's 73 IX. Our Talk Over Tea 81 X. Miss Veal's Engagement is Announced 89 XI. An Awfully Good Time 96 XII. We Inspect the New House 103 XIII. We Go Skating at Exudo 114 XIV. Exit Plumstone Smith, Jr. 123 XV. My Dinner to Miss Pearl Veal 130 XVI. Mrs. Radigan's Costume-ball 139 XVII. The Duke of Nocastle Arrives 149 XVIII. A Problem for the Duke 158 XIX. His Grace Still Hesitates 168 XX. Sir Charles Wigge Takes Possession 180 XXI. Pearl Veal's Answer to the Duke of Nocastle 193 XXII. Tumbleton Tumm, the Minstrel 205 XXIII. The Wedding of the Season 215 XXIV. Mrs. Radigan Being Smart, Becomes Clever 230 XXV. Pearl Veal and I 244 XXVI. In which Mr. Mudison in His Memoirs Gives Us Some Insight into Mrs. Radigan's Shattered Romance 257 XXVII. Mr. Mudison Gives a Theatre-Party for Mrs. Underbunk 270 XXVIII. Mr. Mudison Sees Mrs. Underbunk at the Opera 283 XXIX. Mr. Mudison Leads the Cotillon at the Twitters' 297 XXX. At the Races 313