CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.The Wish[1]
II.The Fulfillment of the Wish[19]
III.Wherein Two People Become Better
Acquainted		[41]
IV.How Helen Came to Maloja[64]
V.An Interlude[84]
VI.The Battlefield[103]
VII.Some Skirmishing[122]
VIII.Shadows[144]
IX.“Etta’s Father”[167]
X.On the Glacier[189]
XI.Wherein Helen Lives a Crowded
Hour		[212]
XII.The Allies[232]
XIII.The Compact[253]
XIV.Wherein Millicent Arms for the
Fray		[275]
XV.A Coward’s Victory[298]
XVI.Spencer Explains[321]
XVII.The Settlement[337]

Ich muss—Das ist die Schrank, in welcher mich die Welt Von einer, die Natur von andrer Seite hält.

Fr. Rückert: Die Weisheit des Brahmenen.

[I must—That is the Barrier within which I am pent by the World on the one hand and Nature on the other.]