NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Copyright, 1915,
By George H. Doran Company
TO
JANE
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| PART ONE | ||
| The Jade: I | [11] | |
| PART TWO | ||
| Lot & Company: I | [21] | |
| PART THREE | ||
| The Jade: II | [67] | |
| PART FOUR | ||
| The Open Boat | [107] | |
| PART FIVE | ||
| The Stone House: I | [197] | |
| PART SIX | ||
| Lot & Company: II | [241] | |
| PART SEVEN | ||
| The Stone House: II | [321] | |
PART ONE
THE JADE: I
1
All would have happened differently for Bellair had he been drowsy as usual on this particular Sunday afternoon. The boarding-house was preparing for its nap; indeed already half enveloped, but there came to Bellair’s nostrils a smell of carpets that brought back his first passage up stairs five years before. The halls were filled with greys—dull tones that drove him forth at last. It was November, and the day didn’t know what to do next. Gusts of seasonable wind, wisps of sunshine, threats of rain, and everywhere Bellair’s old enemy—the terrifying Sabbath calm, without which the naked granite soul of New York would remain decently hid. Sundays had tortured him from the beginning. It was not so bad when the garment was on—the weave of millions.