NOTE.
Preface.
Contents.
Prologue. Introducing the Reader to the Lady Katherine Fleet.
Chapter I. Of the finding of Lord Nelson's Journal.
Chapter II. Introducing the Admiral.
Chapter III. Of the Letters of a Boy and a Girl.
Chapter IV. Of our Entry into Syracuse.
Chapter V. In which Will has his first Chance, and his first
Chapter VI. At the Fountain of CyanE and the Papyrus Beds of the Anapo.
Chapter VII. Satisfying a Prince's Honour.
Chapter VIII. Of the Battle of the Nile, on the First of August, 1798.
Chapter IX. How the Admiral began his friendship with Lady Hamilton.
Chapter X. What happened at the Ball given by Lady Hamilton in honour of the Admiral.
Chapter XI. How the Admiral entered the maze of Neapolitan Politics.
Chapter XII. [3] Of a Visit to Pompeji in 1798, in which
Chapter XIII. Of the Supper at the Palace that followed.
Chapter XIV. What the Admiral wrote of My Lady in his Journal.
Chapter XV. Of the Voyage to Malta, with the Account of what happened at Caserta.
Chapter XVI. What the Admiral wrote in his Journal about Love.
Chapter XVII. Which the Idle Reader may skip, as Politics. It
Chapter XVIII. How the Neapolitans declared War, and how they waged it.
Chapter XIX. How Two Millions and a half of Treasure were
Chapter XX. How the Vanguard took the Royal Family to Palermo
Chapter XXI. How Will was entertained by the Princess at her Palace of the Favara. [7]
Chapter XXII. How all Europe was at Sixes and Sevens.
Chapter XXIII. Of the Love of the Admiral and My Lady.
Chapter XXIV. How the Admiral went to the Favara, and the Prophecy began its Fulfilment.
Chapter XXV. How the Admiral took Naples, and of the Hanging of Caracciolo.
Chapter XXVI. Of the strange Plight in which Will found Katherine.
Chapter XXVII. Of the Death of Donna Rusidda, the Resurrection of Caracciolo, and the Happy Ending.
Transcriber’s Note
Misspelling in quoted matter (journal entries, correspondence, etc.) is preserved as printed. Further notes may be found at the end of the text.
Second Edition.
By Douglas Sladen Author of “A Japanese Marriage,” etc.
A law unto himself
London Hutchinson and Co. Paternoster Row 1898
