ZELDA DAMERON

Zelda

ZELDA
DAMERON

By
MEREDITH NICHOLSON
Author of The Main Chance
With Drawings by
JOHN CECIL CLAY

INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

To the Memory of
My Father,
A Captain of Volunteers
In the Great War

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	The Return of Zelda Dameron	[ 1]
II	Old, Unhappy, Far-Off Things	[ 20]
III	Zelda Receives a Visitor	[ 33]
IV	Mr. Merriam Makes Suggestions	[ 40]
V	A Polite Request for Money	[ 54]
VI	The Lobster	[ 60]
VII	A Prayer for Divine Grace	[ 73]
VIII	Olive Merriam	[ 80]
IX	A Nice Little Fellow	[ 96]
X	The River Road	[ 104]
XI	Overheard by Ezra Dameron	[ 113]
XII	Jack Balcomb’s Pleasant Ways	[ 121]
XIII	A Rehearsal of “Deceivers Ever”	[ 136]
XIV	An Attack of Sore Throat	[ 146]
XV	J. Arthur Balcomb Retreats	[ 157]
XVI	In Olive’s Kitchen	[ 170]
XVII	Dameron Block, 1870	[ 177]
XVIII	Zelda Lifts a Burden	[ 189]
XIX	The Patoka Flats	[ 205]
XX	Two Gentlemen Become Acquainted	[ 214]
XXI	“I Believe I’m in Love”	[ 224]
XXII	Rodney Merriam Explains	[ 233]
XXIII	Brighter Vistas	[ 245]
XXIV	Only About Dreams	[ 255]
XXV	A New Attitude	[ 273]
XXVI	An August Night Adventure	[ 286]
XXVII	Mr. Balcomb’s Easy Conscience	[ 295]
XXVIII	Amicable Interviews	[ 310]
XXIX	Zelda Faces a Crisis	[ 323]
XXX	“I Wish You Would Not Lie To Me”	[ 333]
XXXI	Face to Face	[ 343]
XXXII	In Seminary Square	[ 355]
XXXIII	The First of October	[ 364]
XXXIV	A New Understanding	[ 375]
XXXV	A Settling of Accounts	[ 390]
XXXVI	When Dreams Come True	[ 400]

CONTENTS