BEST LAID SCHEMES

BY
MEREDITH NICHOLSON

“The best laid schemes o’ mice and men

Gang aft a-gley”

—Robert Burns

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1922

Copyright, 1919, 1922, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Copyright, 1912, 1913, 1914 by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING CO.
Copyright, 1916 by P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY
Copyright, 1921 by THE McCLURE PUBLICATIONS Inc.
Printed in the United States of America
Published April, 1922

TO
WILL H. HAYS
WHOSE FRIENDSHIP IS MORE TO BE PRIZED
THAN MUCH FINE GOLD