Roads of Destiny

I.	[Roads of Destiny]
II.	[The Guardian of the Accolade]
III.	[The Discounters of Money]
IV.	[The Enchanted Profile]
V.	["Next to Reading Matter"]
VI.	[Art and the Bronco]
VII.	[Phœbe]
VIII.	[A Double-dyed Deceiver]
IX.	[The Passing of Black Eagle]
X.	[A Retrieved Reformation]
XI.	[Cherchez la Femme]
XII.	[Friends in San Rosario]
XIII.	[The Fourth in Salvador]
XIV.	[The Emancipation of Billy]
XV.	[The Enchanted Kiss]
XVI.	[A Departmental Case]
XVII.	[The Renaissance at Charleroi]
XVIII.	[On Behalf of the Management]
XIX.	[Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking]
XX.	[The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss]
XXI.	[Two Renegades]
XXII.	[The Lonesome Road]

I

I go to seek on many roads
What is to be.
True heart and strong, with love to light—
Will they not bear me in the fight
To order, shun or wield or mould
My Destiny?

Unpublished Poems of David Mignot.

The song was over. The words were David's; the air, one of the countryside. The company about the inn table applauded heartily, for the young poet paid for the wine. Only the notary, M. Papineau, shook his head a little at the lines, for he was a man of books, and he had not drunk with the rest.

David went out into the village street, where the night air drove the wine vapour from his head. And then he remembered that he and Yvonne had quarrelled that day, and that he had resolved to leave his home that night to seek fame and honour in the great world outside.

"When my poems are on every man's tongue," he told himself, in a fine exhilaration, "she will, perhaps, think of the hard words she spoke this day."