LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

["It all looked very intimate and lover-like"] (Frontispiece)
["He bounded forward to meet her"]
["His solitary table was near theirs in the restaurant"]
["'He is often in some scrape—something must have culminated to-night'"]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

[CHAPTER I]
[CHAPTER XIII]
[CHAPTER II]
[CHAPTER XIV]
[CHAPTER III]
[CHAPTER XV]
[CHAPTER IV]
[CHAPTER XVI]
[CHAPTER V]
[CHAPTER XVII]
[CHAPTER VI]
[CHAPTER XVIII]
[CHAPTER VII]
[CHAPTER XIX]
[CHAPTER VIII]
[CHAPTER XX]
[CHAPTER IX]
[CHAPTER XXI]
[CHAPTER X]
[CHAPTER XXII]
[CHAPTER XI]
[CHAPTER XXIII]
[CHAPTER XII]
[CHAPTER XXIV]

THE MAN AND THE MOMENT

CHAPTER I

Michael Arranstoun folded a letter which he had been reading for the seventh time, with a vicious intentness, and then jumping up from the big leather chair in which he had been buried, he said aloud, "Damn!"