CONTENTS
| PART I | ||
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | “—To Bondage of Great Deeds” | [1] |
| II. | A Choice of Heroes | [15] |
| III. | Playing at God | [29] |
| IV. | The Shape of Three | [47] |
| V. | Diamonds are Trumps | [67] |
| VI. | Merle | [75] |
| VII. | Peter | [84] |
| VIII. | Stuart Goes a-Stunting | [93] |
| IX. | A Perfect Piratical Playroom | [104] |
| X. | Carn Trewoofa | [113] |
| XI. | Two—and One Over | [129] |
| XII. | The Casket Lined With Pink | [147] |
| PART II | ||
| I. | Hairpin Vision | [153] |
| II. | A Prodigal Father | [162] |
| III. | “We Travel Light” | [173] |
| IV. | Wild Duck | [192] |
| V. | The World Washed Clean | [206] |
| VI. | The Point of View of the Orange | [219] |
| VII. | Fortunatus | [229] |
| PART III | ||
| I. | “For He Had Great Possessions” | [237] |
| II. | Follow-My-Leader! | [247] |
| III. | “Run on Bohemian Lines!” | [271] |
| IV. | Il Trovatore | [289] |
| V. | Worshippers All | [313] |
| VI. | “To Test Her Love” | [327] |
| VII. | Johnsonese | [348] |
| VIII. | The Disciple | [363] |
| IX. | The Master | [378] |
TWOS AND THREES
PART I
CHAPTER I
“—TO BONDAGE OF GREAT DEEDS”
“That’s a dangerous fellow, Stuart,” remarked Baldwin Carr, who had unperceived entered the library, and, over his nephew’s shoulder, read the title: “Thus Spake Zarathustra.”
Stuart Heron laid down the ponderous volume of Nietzsche, and smiled up lazily at his juvenile uncle-by-marriage: “Oh, we’re a depraved family! Not half an hour ago I caught Babs behind the drawing-room screen, reading Ella Wheeler Wilcox.”
Baldwin looked startled. “Isn’t that all right? I myself gave it to the child; the complete edition, bound in white vellum.”