Seven Miles to Arden

CHAP.		PAGE
I.	The Way of It	[1]
II.	A Sign-post Points to an Adventure	[12]
III.	Patsy Plays a Part	[25]
IV.	The Occupant of a Balmacaan Coat	[39]
V.	A Tinker Points the Road	[48]
VI.	At Day’s End	[64]
VII.	The Tinker Plays a Part	[85]
VIII.	When Two Were Not Company	[106]
IX.	Patsy Acquires Some Information	[121]
X.	Joseph Journeys To a Far Country	[139]
XI.	And Chance Stages Melodrama Instead of Comedy	[153]
XII.	A Change of Nationality	[165]
XIII.	A Message and a Map	[191]
XIV.	Enter King Midas	[202]
XV.	Arden	[216]
XVI.	The Road Begins All Over Again	[231]

I

THE WAY OF IT

Patsy O’Connell sat on the edge of her cot in the women’s free ward of the City Hospital. She was pulling on a vagabond pair of gloves while she mentally gathered up a somewhat doubtful, ragged lot of prospects and stood them in a row before her for contemplation, comparison, and a final choice. They strongly resembled the contents of her steamer trunk, held at a respectable boarding-house in University Square by a certain Miss Gibb for unpaid board, for these were made up of a jumble of priceless and worthless belongings, unmarketable because of their extremes.

She had time a-plenty for contemplation; the staff wished to see her before she left, and the staff at that moment was consulting at the other end of the hospital.

CONTENTS

SEVEN MILES TO ARDEN

I

THE WAY OF IT