[PART I]
[In Which You See a Secret Spring]
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I. [Fate Walks Broadway][11]
II. [Fate Goes A-fishing][17]
III. [As the Twigs Were Bent][28]
IV. [Fate Reels In][37]
[PART II]
[In Which the Spring Flows in a Little Stream]
V. [Roger Finds the Island][47]
VI. [Fate Casts Her Die][59]
VII. [I Ride Knight Errant][66]
VIII. [The Mists of Eden][74]
[PART III]
[In Which the Stream Joins with Othersand Plunges Down a Cliff]
IX. [Margarita Meets the Enemy and He is Hers][81]
X. [Fate Spreads an Island Feast][87]
XI. [Our Parson Proves Capable][94]
XII. [I Leave Eden][105]
[PART IV]
[In Which the Stream Winds Through aSullen Marsh and Becomes a Brook]
XIII. [Straws that Showed the Wind][111]
XIV. [The Island Cottage][118]
XV. [Fate Plays Me in the Shallows][130]
XVI. [Margarita Comes to Town][141]
[PART V]
[In Which the Brook Becomes a River andFlows by Great Cities]
XVII. [Our Pearl Bathes in Seine Water][149]
XVIII. [My Pearl of Too Great Price.][157]
XIX. [Fate Lands Me on the Rocks][164]
[PART VI]
[In Which You Are Shown the River's VerySources, Far Underground]
XX. [A Garden Glimpse of Eden][181]
XXI. [Hester Prynne's Secret][186]
XXII. [Fate Laughs and Baits Her Hook][196]
[PART VII]
[In Which the River Leaps a Sudden Cliffand Becomes a Cataract]
XXIII. [Fate Spreads Her Net][213]
XXIV. [Our Second Summer in Eden][221]
XXV. [The Island Tomb][231]
XXVI. [A Handful of Memories][235]
[PART VIII]
[In Which the River Rushes into PerilousRapids]
XXVII. [We Bring Our Pearl to Market][247]
XXVIII. [Arabian Nights in England][257]
XXIX. [Fate Grips Her Landing Net][273]
[PART IX]
[In Which the River Finds the Sea]
XXX. [A Terror in the Snow][279]
XXXI. [Fate Empties Her Creel][289]
XXXII. [The Sunset End][294]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[They Crooned Together There, the Woman, the Child and the Birds][Frontispiece]
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[Scooped Hundreds—Perhaps Thousands—Out of a Chest to Flee at Dawn][43]
[The Tall, Gaunt, Silent Woman ... Striding Through the Pastures][49]
[I Seem to See ... a Beautiful Woman in a Blue Dress Sitting Under a Fruit Tree][105]
[Persons Born in That Month of That Year Will Never Be Otherwise Than Far Out of the Ordinary][132]
[Margarita Stopped and Stared at It Several Minutes][144]
[For Hours and Hours I Walked, Muttering and Cursing][163]
[Her Weekly Check, Plus a Draft for a Hundred Pounds][174]
[She Spins Her Hemp and Weaves Osiers into Baskets and Changes Them for Goats' Hams][204]
[The Gloomy, Faded Glories of the Musty Palace][208]
[Ah, Faithful Caliban, What Hours of Terrible Tuition Made Thy Task Clear to Thee!][233]
[He Sketched Her in Charcoal, Dressed (He Would Have It) in Black][240]
[It Was After the Garden Love-Scene That She Won Her Recalls][250]
[They Are Still as Death, Tranced in Those Liquid Bell-Tones][270]
[I Leaned Over the Bank and Cried That I Was There, But She Never Stopped—It Was Terrible][281]
[It Is a Favourite Claim of Ours Who Are Bidden to That Home That It Is an Enchanted Isle][296]

PART ONE

IN WHICH YOU SEE A SECRET SPRING