Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Anne Storer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: Table of Contents added. * * * * * _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ IDOLS SEPTIMUS DERELICTS THE USURPER WHERE LOVE IS THE WHITE DOVE SIMON THE JESTER A STUDY IN SHADOWS A CHRISTMAS MYSTERY THE BELOVÈD VAGABOND AT THE GATE OF SAMARIA THE MORALS OF MARCUS ORDEYNE THE DEMAGOGUE AND LADY PHAYRE THE GLORY OF CLEMENTINA [Illustration: AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FOURTH KISS OUT CAME HER FATHER _See page 34_] THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOL BY WILLIAM J. LOCKE ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALEC BALL NEW YORK JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMXII * * * * * CONTENTS I THE ADVENTURE OF THE FAIR PATRONNE II THE ADVENTURE OF THE ARLÉSIENNE III THE ADVENTURE OF THE KIND MR. SMITH IV THE ADVENTURE OF THE FOUNDLING V THE ADVENTURE OF THE PIG'S HEAD VI THE ADVENTURE OF FLEURETTE VII THE ADVENTURE OF THE MIRACLE VIII THE ADVENTURE OF THE FICKLE GODDESS IX THE ADVENTURE OF A SAINT MARTIN'S SUMMER * * * * * LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE At the Beginning of the Fourth Kiss Out Came Her Father _Frontispiece_ I Had Knocked Him Down on Purpose. He Was Crippled for Life 14 Anything Less Congruous as the Bride-Elect of the Debonair Aristide Pujol it Was Impossible to Imagine 22 Had Straightway Poured His Grievances into a Feminine Ear 32 I Found Both Tyres Had Been Punctured in a Hundred Places 40 "Madame," said Aristide, "You Are Adorable, and I Love You to Distraction" 50 "The Villain Was a Traveller in Buttons--Buttons!" 60 He Burst into Shrieks of Laughter 64 "And You!" shouted Bocardon, Falling on Aristide; "I Must Embrace You Also" 68 Standing on the Arrival Platform of Euston Station 78 "Ah! the Pictures," cried Aristide, with a Wide Sweep of His Arms 88 "I'll Take Five Hundred Pounds," said He, "to Stay in" 96 Between the Folds of a Blanket Peeped the Face of a Sleeping Child 110 He Demonstrated the Proper Application of the Cure 120 It is a Fearsome Thing for a Man to be Left Alone in the Dead of Night with a Young Baby 124