SPARROWS

THE STORY OF AN UNPROTECTED GIRL

by

Horace W. C. Newte

CONTENTS

ONE [THE DEVITTS]
TWO [MAVIS KEEVES]
THREE [FRIENDS IN NEED]
FOUR [MAVIS LEAVES HER NEST]
FIVE [BARREN WAYS]
SIX ["DAWES"]
SEVEN [WIDER HORIZONS]
EIGHT [SPIDER AND FLY]
NINE [AWING]
TEN ["POULTER'S"]
ELEVEN [MAVIS'S PRAYER]
TWELVE [MRS HAMILTON'S]
THIRTEEN [MAVIS GOES OUT TO SUPPER]
FOURTEEN [THE SEQUEL]
FIFTEEN [A GOOD SAMARITAN]
SIXTEEN [SURRENDER]
SEVENTEEN [SPRINGTIME]
EIGHTEEN [CHARLIE PERIGAL]
NINETEEN [THE MOON GODDESS]
TWENTY [THE WAY OF ALL FLESH]
TWENTY-ONE [THE AWAKENING]
TWENTY-TWO [O LOVE, FOR DELIGHTS!]
TWENTY-THREE [THE CURSE OF EVE]
TWENTY-FOUR [SNARES]
TWENTY-FIVE [A NEW ACQUAINTANCE]
TWENTY-SIX [TRAVAIL]
TWENTY-SEVEN [THE NURSING HOME]
TWENTY-EIGHT [MISS 'PETT'S APOTHEOSIS]
TWENTY-NINE [THE ORDEAL]
THIRTY [THE "PERMANENT"]
THIRTY-ONE [PIMLICO]
THIRTY-TWO [MISS TOOMBS REVEALS HERSELF]
THIRTY-THREE [AN OLD FRIEND]
THIRTY-FOUR [MAVIS GOES TO MELKBRIDGE]
THIRTY-FIVE [THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW]
THIRTY-SIX [A VISIT]
THIRTY-SEVEN [MAVIS AND HAROLD]
THIRTY-EIGHT [MAVIS'S REVENGE]
THIRTY-NINE [A SURPRISE]
FORTY [A MIDNIGHT WALK]
FORTY-ONE [TRIBULATION]
FORTY-TWO [THE WELL-BELOVED]

CHAPTER ONE

THE DEVITTS

Everyone at Melkbridge knew the Devitts: they lived in the new, pretentious-looking house, standing on the right, a few minutes after one left the town by the Bathminster road. It was a blustering, stare-one-in-the-face kind of house, which defied one to question the financial stability of its occupants. The Devitts were like their home in being new, ostentatious folk; their prosperity did not extend further back than the father of Montague, the present head of the family.