“I Beg Your Pardon. Is This a Private Raft?” The Beauty and the Bolshevist By ALICE DUER MILLER Author of “The Charm School” “Ladies must Live” “Come out of the Kitchen” etc. Illustrated Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London Printed in the United States of America Published October, 1920 ILLUSTRATIONS “I beg your pardon. Is this a private raft?” “Mr. Moreton, the Newport boat leaves at five-thirty” “I’ll be there in five minutes, in a little blue car” “Suppose you find you do hate being poor?” CONTENTS Chapter I The editor of that much-abused New York daily, Liberty, pushed back his editorial typewriter and opened one letter in the pile which the office-boy—no respecter of persons—had just laid upon the desk while whistling a piercing tune between his teeth. The letter said: CONTENTS DEAR BEN,—I hate to think what your feelings will be on learning that I am engaged to be married to a daughter of the capitalistic class. Try to overcome your prejudices, however, and judge Eugenia as an individual