CONTENTS

I.[Concerning Two Gentlemen from Long Island, Destiny, and a Pot of Black Paint]
II.[A Chapter Depicting a Rather Garrulous Reunion]
III.[Trouble for Two]
IV.[Wherein a Modest Man Is Bullied and a Literary Man Practices Style]
V.[Dreamland]
VI.[Soul and Body]
VII.[The Biter, the Bitten, and the Un-bitten]
VIII.[A Matter of Pronunciation]
IX.[Fate]
X.[Chance]
XI.[Destiny]
XII.[In Which a Modest Man Maunders]
XIII.[A Chance Acquaintance]
XIV.[A State of Mind]
XV.[Flotsam and Jetsam]
XVI.[The Simplest Solution of an Ancient Problem]
XVII.[Showing How It Is Possible for Any Man to Make of Himself a Chump]
XVIII.[The Master Knot of Human Fate]
XIX.[The Time and the Place]
XX.[Down the Seine]
XXI.[In a Belgian Garden]
XXII.[A Youthful Patriot]
XXIII.[On the Wall]
XXIV.[A Journey to the Moon]
XXV.[The Army of Paris]

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ILLUSTRATIONS

["'I realised that I was going to kiss her if she didn't move.... And—she didn't'"]
["'Give up my dead!' she whispered. 'Give up my dead!'"]
["Christmas Eve she knelt, crying, before the pedestal"]
["'Only one person in the world can ever matter to me—now'"]
["Beyond, rocking wildly in a gilded boat, sat two people and a placid swan"]
["'I—I don't know,' she stammered; 'my shoe seems tied to yours'"]