Contents

CHAPTERPAGE
I.A Stricken Corsage[9]
II.Owen Kilgariff[29]
III.Evelyn Byrd[50]
IV.The Letting Down of the Bars[59]
V.Dorothy’s Opinions[70]
VI.“When Greek meets Greek”[79]
VII.With Evelyn at Wyanoke[102]
VIII.Some Revelations of Evelyn[118]
IX.The Great War Game[144]
X.The Law of Love[152]
XI.Orders and “No Nonsense”[167]
XII.Safe-conduct of Two Kinds[178]
XIII.Kilgariff hears News[185]
XIV.In the Watches of the Night[210]
XV.In the Trenches[216]
XVI.The Starving Time[224]
XVII.A Gun-pit Conference[242]
XVIII.Evelyn’s Revelation[269]
XIX.Dorothy’s Decision[277]
XX.A Man, a Maid, and a Horse[283]
XXI.Evelyn lifts a Corner of the Curtain[294]
XXII.Alone in the Porch[302]
XXIII.A Lesson from Dorothy[318]
XXIV.Evelyn’s Book[327]
XXV.More of Evelyn’s Book[345]
XXVI.Evelyn’s Book, Continued[370]
XXVII.Kilgariff’s Perplexity[386]
XXVIII.Evelyn’s Book, Concluded[390]
XXIX.Evelyn’s Vigil[418]
XXX.Before a Hickory Fire[424]
XXXI.The Last Flight of Evelyn[432]
XXXII.The End of it All[434]

Illustrations

“I already know what is in the papers”[Frontispiece]
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“Who are you?”[89]
“I may stroke his fur as much as I please”[166]
Taking the papers from Campbell’s hand, passed out of the house without a word of farewell[208]