Editor's note -- Preface -- A proclamation at market -- The day's second interrogation -- Rattle rides out -- The imposter -- Escape to Kingsmire -- The wrong highwayman's task -- The owl at the crossroad -- Rescue, after a fashion -- A royal wedding foretold -- Long-suffering radishes and new clothes -- The price of a button -- A parting of ways -- Up another tree -- The unlucky luncheon -- The bridge -- Designs upon women's hearts -- The three questions -- The impresario's flight -- Saved by gilt -- The best concealment -- Play-practice -- The tortoise comb -- The fell reflection -- Lily's dream -- Puggle's spectacular -- A brief and happy idyll -- Toasting the steward -- The sigilantum -- The company soon to part -- The final performance -- Captivity -- Tidings from an old acquaintance -- Being an account of my last hours -- The royal wedding -- Midnight's flight -- The Irish Sea -- The enchanted land -- Word from abroad.

In eighteenth-century England, young Christopher "Kit" Bristol unwittingly takes on the task of his dead master, notorious highwayman Whistling Jack, who pledged a fairy he would rescue feisty Princess Morgana from an arranged marriage with King George III.