Printed in the United States of America

TO
ETHEL AND LUCILLE FOREMAN

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I.—[In Forma Pauperis]
II.—[Corpus Delicti]
III.—[Sub Judice]
IV.—[In Loco Parentis]
V.—[De Motu Proprio]
VI.—[Pacta Conventa]
VII.—[Flos Veneris]
VIII.—[Mille Modi Veneris]
IX.—[Non Sequitur]
X.—[Compos Mentis]
XI.—[Quod Erat Faciendum]
XII.—[Nunc Aut Nunquam]
XIII.—[Cui Malo]
XIV.—[Desunt Cætera]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

["Watching the city lights—watching, listening, always listening"] . . . Frontispiece

["A dainty, unreal shape, exquisite as a tinted phantom stealing through a fairy tale of Old Japan"]

["'We *had* to spend all our money on clothes'"]

["'My uncle's port and sherry,' he said"]