CONTENTSI.[Concerning Two Gentlemen from Long Island, Destiny, and a Pot of Black Paint]II.[A Chapter Depicting a Rather Garrulous Reunion]III.[Trouble for Two]IV.[Wherein a Modest Man Is Bullied and a Literary Man Practices Style]V.[Dreamland]VI.[Soul and Body]VII.[The Biter, the Bitten, and the Un-bitten]VIII.[A Matter of Pronunciation]IX.[Fate]X.[Chance]XI.[Destiny]XII.[In Which a Modest Man Maunders]XIII.[A Chance Acquaintance]XIV.[A State of Mind]XV.[Flotsam and Jetsam]XVI.[The Simplest Solution of an Ancient Problem]XVII.[Showing How It Is Possible for Any Man to Make of Himself a Chump]XVIII.[The Master Knot of Human Fate]XIX.[The Time and the Place]XX.[Down the Seine]XXI.[In a Belgian Garden]XXII.[A Youthful Patriot]XXIII.[On the Wall]XXIV.[A Journey to the Moon]XXV.[The Army of Paris]LIST OFILLUSTRATIONS["'I realised that I was going to kiss her if she didn't move.... And—she didn't'"]["'Give up my dead!' she whispered. 'Give up my dead!'"]["Christmas Eve she knelt, crying, before the pedestal"]["'Only one person in the world can ever matter to me—now'"]["Beyond, rocking wildly in a gilded boat, sat two people and a placid swan"]["'I—I don't know,' she stammered; 'my shoe seems tied to yours'"]