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
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | Strained Relations | [1] |
| II | A Glimpse of Promised Land | [26] |
| III | Nip and Tuck | [40] |
| IV | The Quality of Mercy | [59] |
| V | Et Tu, Brute! | [82] |
| VI | Flag Day | [99] |
| VII | Straws Point | [115] |
| VIII | Longest Way Home | [128] |
| IX | Maitland Tait | [141] |
| X | In the Firelight | [157] |
| XI | Two Men and a Maid | [168] |
| XII | An Assignment | [186] |
| XIII | Jilted! | [211] |
| XIV | The Skies Fall | [230] |
| XV | The Journey | [244] |
| XVI | London | [278] |
| XVII | House 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.