CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Townlander[ 1]
II. The Sow’s Ear[ 16]
III. The Golden Youth[ 30]
IV. In Which Carfax Enlists[ 47]
V. Partly Sentimental[ 59]
VI. Daddy Layne, and Others[ 73]
VII. Company Come[ 82]
VIII. The Stubborn Rock[ 96]
IX. A Bad Night for Rucker[ 114]
X. Blind Alleys[ 125]
XI. Rosemary and Rue[ 148]
XII. Dull Steel[ 164]
XIII. The Burnt Child[ 177]
XIV. The Logic of Fact[ 194]
XV. Mammy Ann’s Grave[ 207]
XVI. A Friend at Need[ 230]
XVII. An Anticlimax[ 248]
XVIII. Evolutionary[ 261]
XIX. The Human Equation[ 278]
XX. Limitations[ 294]
XXI. The Clansmen[ 305]
XXII. Out of a Clear Sky[ 323]
XXIII. At Westwood House[ 334]
XXIV. The Unknown Quantity[ 346]
XXV. The Mangling of Poictiers[ 365]
XXVI. Tryon’s News[ 377]
XXVII. Cloud-Wraiths[ 389]
XXVIII. The Ocoee’s Answer[ 397]
XXIX. Beyond the Gap[ 410]
XXX. A Grounded Wire[ 419]
XXXI. On Pisgah’s Height[ 436]