Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/thirteentravelle00walp Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by plus signs has small capital letters (+small capital letters+). THE THIRTEEN TRAVELLERS HUGH WALPOLE * * * * * * _Books by_ HUGH WALPOLE _NOVELS_ THE WOODEN HORSE THE GODS AND MR. PERRIN THE GREEN MIRROR THE DARK FOREST THE SECRET CITY THE CAPTIVES _ROMANCES_ MARADICK AT FORTY THE PRELUDE TO ADVENTURE FORTITUDE THE DUCHESS OF WREXE _SHORT STORIES_ THE GOLDEN SCARECROW JEREMY THE THIRTEEN TRAVELLERS _BELLES-LETTERS_ JOSEPH CONRAD: A CRITICAL STUDY * * * * * * THE THIRTEEN TRAVELLERS by HUGH WALPOLE Author of "The Captives," "Jeremy," "The Secret City," "The Green Mirror," Etc. New [Illustration] York George H. Doran Company Copyright, 1921, by George H. Doran Company [Illustration] Copyright, 1920, 1921, by the Pictorial Review Company Printed in the United States of America TO JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER IN FRIENDSHIP "After they were blown up they were blown down again, and then had to pause for a moment to get their breath...."--_Hanspickle._ +Henry Galleon+ CONTENTS I +Absalom Jay+ II +Fanny Close+ III +The Hon. Clive Torby+ IV +Miss Morganhurst+ V +Peter Westcott+ VI +Lucy Moon+ VII +Mrs. Porter and Miss Allen+ VIII +Lois Drake+ IX +Mr. Nix+ X +Lizzie Rand+ XI +Nobody+ XII +Bombastes Furioso+ THE THIRTEEN TRAVELLERS AUTHOR'S NOTE _No character in this book is drawn from any person now living._ THE THIRTEEN TRAVELLERS I ABSALOM JAY Somewhere in the early nineties was Absalom Jay's first period. He was so well known a figure in London at that time as to be frequently caricatured in the weekly society journals, and Spy's "Absalom," that appeared in the 1894 volume of _Vanity Fair_, is one of his most successful efforts. In those days were anyone so ignorant as to be compelled to ask who Jay was he would probably receive the answer: "Oh, don't you know? He's a cousin of John Beaminster's. He founded the "Warrington" with Pemmy Stevens. He's.... Oh, I don't know.... He goes everywhere. Knows more people than anyone else in London, I should imagine."