CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.[Lost]1
II.[Babes in the Woods]11
III.[Voices]22
IV.[Eden]33
V.[Woman and Man]46
VI.[The Shadow]60
VII.[Allegro]73
VIII.[Chicot, the Jester]84
IX.[The Lorings]95
X.[Mr. Van Duyn Rides Forth]109
XI.[The Cedarcroft Set]122
XII.[Nellie Pennington Cuts In]136
XIII.[Mrs. Pennington’s Brougham]151
XIV.[The Junior Member]166
XV.[Discovered]177
XVI.[Behind the Enemy’s Back]190
XVII.[“The Pot and Kettle”]200
XVIII.[The Enemy and a Friend]212
XIX.[Love on Crutches]225
XX.[The Intruder]236
XXI.[Temptation]247
XXII.[Smoke and Fire]261
XXIII.[The Mouse and the Lion]273
XXIV.[Diamond Cut Diamond]285
XXV.[Deep Water]297
XXVI.[Big Business]310
XXVII.[Mr. Loring Reflects]323
XXVIII.[The Lodestar]338
XXIX.[Arcadia Again]350

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[“The table rang from end to end with joke and laughter.”]
[“‘Do tell me something more, Nina. Was she young and pretty?’”]
[“‘And you never cared for any one else?’”]
[“‘Father!’ Jane’s ... whisper was at his ear.”]

THE SILENT BATTLE

[I]
LOST

Gallatin wearily lowered the creel from his shoulders and dropped it by his rod at the foot of a tree. He knew that he was lost—had known it, in fact, for an hour or more, but with the certainty that there was no way out until morning, perhaps not even then, came a feeling of relief, and with the creel, he dropped the mental burden which for the last hour had been plaguing him, first with fear and then more recently with a kind of ironical amusement.