THE FORTUNE-HUNTERS AND OTHER STORIES

BY VIOLET JACOB

LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1910

PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD., LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

NOTE

Three of these stories, “Providence and Colonel Dormer,” “The Windmill,” and “Other People’s Gods,” are reprinted from _The Pall Mall Magazine_; “The Fortune-Hunters” and “The Buckingham Gallery” from _The Woman at Home_; “The Wythan Tree” from _The Acorn_; and “The Black Man’s Hand” and “Behind the Wall” from _The Newcastle Chronicle_.

“The Lights of Jerusalem” has appeared in _The Cornhill Magazine_, and the remaining four are new.

V. J.

PAGE

THE FORTUNE-HUNTERS 1

LÉONIE 101

THE BLACK MAN’S HAND 134

PROVIDENCE AND COLONEL DORMER 152

THE WYTHAN TREE 181

OTHER PEOPLE’S GODS 197

THE LIGHTS OF JERUSALEM 220

THE WINDMILL 238

THE BUCKINGHAM GALLERY 252

THE CLAIMS OF FRIENDSHIP 263

BEHIND THE WALL 289

‘KINGS’ CROWNS’ 305

THE FRINGE OF THE JUNGLE 318

THE FORTUNE-HUNTERS