Children of No Man's Land

by G. B. Stern

Aye, the whole of the soul.”

Ford Madox Hueffer

CHILDREN
OF NO MAN’S LAND

PART I

CHAPTER I

I

“Let her go,” said Ferdinand Marcus. “I want my daughter to have a good time.”

Aunt Stella assented. “Why shouldn’t she go? Anything for a change, when one is twenty-three. Anything for excitement. And she can come to no harm. Besides, Richard is invited too.”

“No harm,” chirruped her brother. “Liberty for the young! We have missed enough, Stella, you and I, through old-fashioned prejudices.”