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CONTENTS

CHAPTER

  1. [Sharp Practice]
  2. [Camilla]
  3. [New York]
  4. [The Forbidden Way]
  5. [Diners Out]
  6. [Mrs. Cheyne]
  7. [Braebank]
  8. [The Brush]
  9. [The Shadow]
  10. [Triton of the Minnows]
  11. [Discord]
  12. [Tea Cups and Music]
  13. [Good Fishing]
  14. [Father and Son]
  15. [Infatuation]
  16. [Old Dangers]
  17. [Old Rose Leaves]
  18. [Combat]
  19. [The Lady in Gray]
  20. [*La Femme Propose*]
  21. [*L'Homme Dispose*]
  22. [Private Matters]
  23. [The Intruder]
  24. [Gretchen Decides]
  25. [The Crisis]
  26. [The Call of the Heart]
  27. [General Bent]
  28. [Household Gods—and Goddesses]

THE FORBIDDEN WAY

CHAPTER I

SHARP PRACTICE

The young man in the swivel chair drummed with his toes against the desk, while he studied the gaudy fire insurance calendar on the wall before him. His pipe hung bowl downward from his lips, and the long fingers of one hand toyed with a legal document in his lap.

"Something new is hatching in this incubator," he muttered at last, dipping his pen in the ink bottle again. "And I think—I think it's an ugly duckling. Of course, it's no business of mine, but——" He looked up suddenly as a bulky figure darkened the doorway. "Hello, Jeff!"

Jeff Wray nodded and walked to the water cooler.