GEORGE WRIGHT

Published May, 1903

TO
A GRANDDAUGHTER
OF ONE LOIS HUNTINGTON

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
[I.][GORDON KEITH'S PATRIMONY]
[II.][GENERAL KEITH BECOMES AN OVERSEER]
[III.][THE ENGINEER AND THE SQUIRE]
[IV.][TWO YOUNG MEN]
[V.][THE RIDGE COLLEGE]
[VI.][ALICE YORKE]
[VII.][MRS. YORKE FINDS A GENTLEMAN]
[VIII.][MR. KEITH'S IDEALS]
[IX.][MR. KEITH IS UNPRACTICAL]
[X.][MRS. YORKE CUTS A KNOT]
[XI.][GUMBOLT]
[XII.][KEITH DECLINES AN OFFER]
[XIII.][KEITH IN NEW YORK]
[XIV.][THE HOLD-UP]
[XV.][MRS. YORKE MAKES A MATCH]
[XVI].[KEITH VISITS NEW YORK, AND MRS. LANCASTER SEES A GHOST]
[XVII.][KEITH MEETS NORMAN]
[XVIII.][MRS. LANCASTER]
[XIX.][WICKERSHAM AND PHRONY]
[XX.][MRS. LANCASTER'S WIDOWHOOD]
[XXI.][THE DIRECTORS' MEETING]
[XXII.][MRS. CREAMER'S BALL]
[XXIII.][GENERAL KEITH VISITS STRANGE LANDS]
[XXIV.][KEITH TRIES HIS FORTUNES ABROAD]
[XXV.][THE DINNER AT MRS. WICKERSHAM'S]
[XXVI.][A MISUNDERSTANDING]
[XXVII.][PHRONY TRIPPER AND THE REV. MR. RIMMON]
[XXVIII.][ALICE LANCASTER FINDS PHRONY]
[XXIX.][THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE]
[XXX.]["SNUGGLERS' ROOST"]
[XXXI.][TERPY'S LAST DANCE AND WICKERSHAM'S FINAL THROW]
[XXXII.][THE RUN ON THE BANK]
[XXXIII.][RECONCILIATION]
[XXXIV.][THE CONSULTATION]
[XXXV.][THE MISTRESS OF THE LAWNS]
[XXXVI.][THE OLD IDEAL]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[She was the first to break the silence (frontispiece)]
["If you don't go back to your seat I'll dash your brains out," said Keith]
["Then why don't you answer me?"]
[Sprang over the edge of the road into the thick bushes below]
["Why, Mr. Keith!" she exclaimed]
["Sit down. I want to talk to you"]
["It is he! 'Tis he!" she cried]
["Lois—I have come—" he began]