1913

“'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days
Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays”


CONTENTS

[ CHAPTER I. IN ST. JACOB STRAAT. ]

[ CHAPTER II. WORK OR PLAY? ]

[ CHAPTER III. BEGINNING AT HOME. ]

[ CHAPTER IV. A NEW DISCIPLE. ]

[ CHAPTER V. OUT OF EGYPT. ]

[ CHAPTER VI. ON THE DUNES. ]

[ CHAPTER VII. OFFICIAL. ]

[ CHAPTER VIII. THE SEAMY SIDE. ]

[ CHAPTER IX. A SHADOW FROM THE PAST. ]

[ CHAPTER X. DEEPER WATER. ]

[ CHAPTER XI. IN THE OUDE WEG. ]

[ CHAPTER XII. SUBURBAN ]

[ CHAPTER XIII. THE MAKING OF A MAN. ]

[ CHAPTER XIV. UNSOUND. ]

[ CHAPTER XV. PLAIN SPEAKING. ]

[ CHAPTER XVI. DANGER. ]

[ CHAPTER XVII. PLAIN SPEAKING. ]

[ CHAPTER XVIII. A COMPLICATION. ]

[ CHAPTER XIX. DANGER. ]

[ CHAPTER XX. FROM THE PAST. ]

[ CHAPTER XXI. A COMBINED FORCE. ]

[ CHAPTER XXII. GRATITUDE. ]

[ CHAPTER XXIII. A REINFORCEMENT. ]

[ CHAPTER XXIV. A BRIGHT AND SHINING LIGHT. ]

[ CHAPTER XXV. CLEARING THE AIR ]

[ CHAPTER XXVI. THE ULTIMATUM. ]

[ CHAPTER XXVII. COMMERCE. ]

[ CHAPTER XXVIII. WITH CARE. ]

[ CHAPTER XXIX. A LESSON. ]

[ CHAPTER XXX. ON THE QUEEN'S CANAL. ]

[ CHAPTER XXXI. AT THE CORNER. ]

[ CHAPTER XXXII. ROUND THE CORNER. ]