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First Impression, September, 1917

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I [Of Futures and Other Important Matters]
II [Reasons and Wraiths]
III [Twenty-Two]
IV [The Ways of a Maid]
V [September Afternoon]
VI [Of Missions, and Omissions]
VII [October Developments]
VIII [Fire and Frost]
IX [The Moth and the Star]
X [The City]
XI [Margins]
XII ["Such Stuff as Dreams"]
XIII [Into Haven]
XIV ["And Having Eyes"]
XV [The City and Sylvia]
XVI [As Might Have Been Expected]
XVII [Barb Diagnoses]
XVIII [The Cause and the Career]
XIX [Oh, Suzanne!]
XX [Sylvia and Life]
XXI [A Chapter of Revelations]
XXII [Unto the Forest]
XXIII [Aftermath]
XXIV [High Tide]
XXV [Warp and Woof]
XXVI [The End and the Beginning]

SYLVIA ARDEN
DECIDES

CHAPTER I

OF FUTURES AND OTHER IMPORTANT MATTERS

"I know what the trouble with Sylvia is," announced Suzanne, elevating herself on one elbow and leaning forward out of the hammock just enough to select and appropriate a plump bonbon from the box on the wicker stand near by.

"Well," encouraged Sylvia, "what is the trouble with me?"