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  MRS. CLIFF'S YACHT

  [Illustration: BURKE DETERMINED TO GET NEAR ENOUGH TO HAIL THE DUNKERY
  BEACON]




  MRS. CLIFF'S YACHT

  BY

  FRANK R. STOCKTON

  _ILLUSTRATED BY A. FORESTIER_

  NEW YORK
  CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
  1896


  COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY

  CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

  NORWOOD PRESS

  J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith

  Norwood Mass. U.S.A.




CONTENTS

  CHAPTER                                                           PAGE

  I. ALONE WITH HER WEALTH                                             1

  II. WILLY CROUP DOESN'T KNOW                                         7

  III. MISS NANCY SHOTT                                               16

  IV. A LAUNCH INTO A NEW LIFE                                        25

  V. A FUR-TRIMMED OVERCOAT AND A SILK HAT                            36

  VI. A TEMPERANCE LARK                                               45

  VII. MR. BURKE ACCEPTS A RESPONSIBILITY                             59

  VIII. MR. BURKE BEGINS TO MAKE THINGS MOVE IN PLAINTON              68

  IX. A MEETING OF HEIRS                                              80

  X. THE INTELLECT OF MISS INCHMAN                                    92

  XI. THE ARRIVAL OF THE NEW DINING-ROOM                              99

  XII. THE THORPEDYKE SISTERS                                        109

  XIII. MONEY HUNGER                                                 114

  XIV. WILLY CROUP AS A PHILANTHROPIC DIPLOMATIST