Copyright, 1919
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
The Quinn & Boden Company
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
RAHWAY NEW JERSEY
THE STARS INCLINE
CHAPTER I
One can be nineteen and still know a great deal of the world. Ruth Mayfield felt that she knew a great deal of the world. She could judge character, and taking care of Mother’s business affairs had helped a lot, and like most young women of nineteen she knew that if marriage offered no more to her than it had offered to her parents, she did not want to marry. Of course they hadn’t quarrelled or anything, but they lived such dull lives, and there were always money worries—and everything.