CONTENTS

PART I
CHAPTERPAGE
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.”