CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I The Happy Pedler Comes to Town [3]
II The Jade and the Inquisition [13]
III Jean François' Vast Possessions [23]
IV The Misadventure of a Circus [35]
V Timid Conquest Comes to Town [48]
VI The Jade, a Nonentity, becomes the Illustrious Nance [57]
VII A Pedler's Pack of Dreams [68]
VIII Monsieur l'Abbé Picot of the Brave, Outlandish Heart [74]
IX The Child is Father to the Man [86]
X On the Morning Road [97]
XI The Satisfactory Explanation of Nance [107]
XII A Hebe of the Highway [117]
XIII The Night in the Greenwood [129]
XIV Vicarious Vagabonds [136]
XV "If I were Monsieur l'Abbé Picot" [146]
XVI Hebe's Farewell to Pan [155]
XVII The Day of Faith [163]
XVIII The Day of Doubt [171]
XIX The Day of Lost Confidence [176]
XX Monsieur l'Abbé at Home [185]
XXI "Little St. Jacques of the Street" [194]
XXII Monsieur l'Abbé Lies Ill [201]
XXIII "I would talk with some old lover's ghost, who lived before the god of love was born" [210]
XXIV The Priest and Faun [216]
XXV Monsieur l'Abbé Picot Goes upon a Journey [222]
ILLUSTRATIONS
She threw him an elfish kiss from her finger-tips and hastened into her
airy improvised bedroom. (Page 135.) [Frontispiece]
The Boy ceased his sobbing. After a while, looking up with a tearful,
smiling face, he announced, as if to the Voice that had called him: "Now I must go to work." Facing page [92]
A solitary man, standing on the hilltop, turned slowly from mountain to
valley, from sky to field, seeming to eat and think and breathe—to make
a part of him by some paganish transubstantiation—the very day itself. Facing page [98]