| CHAPTER I |
| Some Slight Explanation—Objects of the Expedition—Love the Promoter—Lucy Thatcher—Her Portrait by Lamplight | 1 |
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| CHAPTER II |
| “The French Horn”—Mabel Harker: My Unfortunate Engagement to Her—Mr. Crage and Wharton Park | 7 |
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| CHAPTER III |
| I Continue to Keep Out of Mabel Harker’s Way and Go to Goring—Return to “The French Horn”—Wanderings with Lucy—Mr. Crage Rehearses His Own Funeral | 17 |
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| CHAPTER IV |
| I am Free of Mabel Harker—Return to “The French Horn”—Disastrous Interference of Harold Forsyth in My Affairs | 25 |
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| CHAPTER V |
| Anglesey Lodge—My Interview with Lucy in Kensington Gardens—Not so Satisfactory as I could Desire | 29 |
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| CHAPTER VI |
| Early Difficulties—I Fail to Persuade the Honorable Edgar Fanshawe, the Reverend Percy Blyth, and Mr. Parker White, M.P., to Join our Monte Carlo Party | 37 |
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| CHAPTER VII |
| I Interview Mr. Brentin—His Sympathy and Interest—Sir Anthony Hipkins and the Yacht Amaranth—We Determine to Look Over It | 47 |
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| CHAPTER VIII |
| We Go to Ryde—The Amaranth—Accidental Meeting with Arthur Masters and His Lady Friend—I Enroll Him Among Us, Provisionally—We Decide to Purchase the Yacht | 60 |
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| CHAPTER IX |
| My Sister’s Suspicions—Heroes of The Argo—My Sister Determines to Come with Us as Chaperon to Miss Rybot | 70 |
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| CHAPTER X |
| Mr. Brentin’s Indiscretion—Lucy and I Make It Up—Bailey Thompson Appears in Church—On Christmas Day we Hold a Council of War | 77 |
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| CHAPTER XI |
| Mr. Bailey Thompson Gives us His Ingenious Advice—We are Fools enough to Trust Him—Misplaced Confidence | 87 |
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| CHAPTER XII |
| Monte Carlo—Mr. Van Ginkel’s Yacht Saratoga—We Prospect—Fortunate Discovery of the Point of Attack—First Visit to the Rooms | 95 |
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| CHAPTER XIII |
| Mrs. Wingham and Teddy Parsons—He Foolishly Confides in Her—I Make a Similar Mistake | 103 |
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| CHAPTER XIV |
| Arrival of the Amaranth—All Well on Board—Their First Experience of the Rooms | 111 |
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| CHAPTER XV |
| Influence of Climate on Adventure—Unexpected Arrival of Lucy—Her Revelations—Danger Ahead | 118 |
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| CHAPTER XVI |
| Council of War—Captain Evans’s Decision—I Go to the Rooms and Confide in My Sister | 127 |
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| CHAPTER XVII |
| Enter Mr. Bailey Thompson—Van Ginkel Stands by Us—We Show Thompson Round and Explain Details—Teddy Parsons’s Alarm | 136 |
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| CHAPTER XVIII |
| Exit Mr. Bailey Thompson | 146 |
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| CHAPTER XIX |
| The Great Night—Dinner at the “HÔtel de Paris”—A Last Look Round—The Sack and Its Incidents—Flight | THE SACK OF MONTE CARLO “I don’t say that it is possible; I only affirm it to be true.”
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