Fiction · 1906
The Car of Destiny
C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson
Traveling incognito as "Christopher Trevenna," the exiled Spanish nobleman Cristóbal de Casa Triana motors to Biarritz with his American friend Dick Waring to catch a glimpse of the King of Spain's motorcade. Trailing the royal cars, he falls instantly for Lady Monica Vale, a friend of the King's fiancée — a chance meeting that draws him back toward the Spain his own family was banished from.
C. N. and A. M. Williamson published the novel — issued in Britain as The Car of Destiny and Its Errand in Spain — in 1906.
Bibliomancer restores the 1906 text exactly as the Williamsons wrote it.
Contents
- Dedication
- The King’s Car
- The Girl
- The Guest Who Was Not Asked
- “I Don’t Threaten—I Warn”
- A Mystery Concerning a Chauffeur
- Puzzle: Find the Car
- The Impudence of Showing a Handkerchief
- Over the Border
- A Stern Chase
- The Unexpectedness of Miss O’donnel
- María Del Pilar to the Rescue
- Under a Balcony
- What Happened in the Cathedral
- Some Little Ideas of Dick’s
- How the Duke Changed
- A Secret of the King’s
- Like a Thief in the Night
- The Man Who Loved Pilar
- A Parcel for Lieutenant O’donnel
- The Magic Word
- The Duchess’s Hand
- The Luck of the Dream-Book
- The Glorification of Monica
- The Goodwill of Mariquita
- What Cordoba Lacked
- In the Palace of the Kings
- Moonlight in the Garden
- Let Your Heart Speak
- The Garden of Flaming Lilies
- The Hand Under the Curtains
- Behind an Iron Grating
- On the Road to Cadiz
- The Seven Men of Ecija
- The Race
- The Moon in the Wilderness
- Wiles and Enchantments
- Dreams and an Awakening
- The Fountain
- Day After to-Morrow
- Through the Night
- The Fifth Bull; And After
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About the authors
1859–1920 · Victorian
Charles Norris Williamson (1859–1920) was born in Exeter and trained as an engineer at University College, London, before turning to journalism; he spent eight years at The Graphic and founded the magazine Black and White in 1891. After marrying the American novelist Alice Muriel Williamson in 1894, he collaborated with her on a long series of popular travel-romance novels — Set in Silver among them — many built around the still-new experience of motoring through Europe. He died in 1920.
1869–1933 · Modern
Alice Muriel Williamson (1869–1933) was an American-born novelist who, after marrying the journalist Charles Norris Williamson in 1894, became his regular collaborator on a long series of travel-romance novels built around motoring through Britain and Europe, including The Lightning Conductor, The Princess Passes and Set in Silver. She continued writing, both alone and with other collaborators, after her husband's death in 1920.
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