Copyright 1914
The Bobbs-Merrill Company

PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.

TO
LAURA NORVELL ELLIOTT
WHO HAS THE OLD LETTERS—
AND KEEPS THEM

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
IStrained Relations[1]
IIA Glimpse of Promised Land[26]
IIINip and Tuck[40]
IVThe Quality of Mercy[59]
VEt Tu, Brute![82]
VIFlag Day[99]
VIIStraws Point[115]
VIIILongest Way Home[128]
IXMaitland Tait[141]
XIn the Firelight[157]
XITwo Men and a Maid[168]
XIIAn Assignment[186]
XIIIJilted![211]
XIVThe Skies Fall[230]
XVThe Journey[244]
XVILondon[278]
XVIIHouse of a Hundred Dreams[312]

AMAZING GRACE

AMAZING GRACE

CHAPTER I
STRAINED RELATIONS

Some people, you will admit, can absorb experience in gentle little homeopathic doses, while others require it to be shot into them by hypodermic injections.