TO
SARA
OF THE SUNNY HAIR
I knelt on the tree, bent down, and took her upheld hand in mine.
CONTENTS
[Chapter One
In Which I Go to 'Crombie]
[Chapter Two
In Which I Go to 'Crombie Again]
[Chapter Three
In Which I Find a Lodge in the Wilderness]
[Chapter Four
In Which I Meet a Dryad]
[Chapter Five
In Which I Say What I Please]
[Chapter Six
In Which I Meet a Satyr]
[Chapter Seven
In Which the Satyr and I Sit Cheek by Jowl]
[Chapter Eight
In Which I Pitch My Tent Toward Hebron for the Space of an Afternoon]
[Chapter Nine
In Which I Sit Upon a Hilltop and Reflect to no Advantage]
[Chapter Ten
In Which I Spend a Pleasant Hour and Hear Some News]
[Chapter Eleven
In Which Other Characters Come Into Our Story]
[Chapter Twelve
In Which I Attend an Oratorio]
[Chapter Thirteen
In Which I Suffer Four Shocks, Three of the Earth and One From the Sky, and Find Another Maid A-Fishing]
[Chapter Fourteen
In Which Yet a Fifth Shock Arrives, and Rounds Out the Day]
[Chapter Fifteen
In Which the Historian Unblushingly Shows Himself to be a Human]
[Chapter Sixteen
In Which Much Added Light is Shed Upon Miss Beryl Drane, but Only a Glimmer Upon My Problem]
[Chapter Seventeen
In Which I Entertain Seriously a Chivalrous Notion to my Great Detriment]
[Chapter Eighteen
In Which I Descend Into Hell]
[Chapter Nineteen
In Which the Satyr and the Narrator Become Very Drunk, and the Latter is Lifted to Earth Again]
[Chapter Twenty
In Which I View an Empty World, Act a Hypocrite, and Hear a Confession of Love]
[Chapter Twenty-one
In Which, Strange to Say, Time Passes. Also I Receive Three Warnings, and Witness an Unparalleled Episode in the Smithy of Buck Steele]
[Chapter Twenty-two
In Which I Spar With Death]
[Chapter Twenty-three
In Which, Though the World is Still a Void, There is the Shining of a Great Light]
[Chapter Twenty-four
In Which I Vanquish a Demoniac, and Enter Into Glory]