IV. 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
CHAPTER I
_INTRODUCTORY_
GORDON KEITH'S PATRIMONY
Gordon Keith was the son of a gentleman. And this fact, like the ca-
t the
honest miller left to his youngest son, was his only patrimony. As in
that case also, it stood to the possessor in the place of a good many
other things. It helped him over many rough places. He carried it with
him as a devoted Romanist wears a sacred scapulary next to the heart.
His father, General McDowell Keith of "Elphinstone," was a gentleman of
the old kind, a type so old-fashioned that it is hardly accepted these
days as having existed. He knew the Past and lived in it; the Present he
did not understand, and the Future he did not know. In his latter days,
when his son was growing up, after war had swept like a vast inundation
over the land, burying almost everything it had not borne away, General
Keith still survived, unchanged, unmoved, unmarred, an antique memorial
of the life of which he was a relic. His one standard was that of a
gentleman.
This idea was what the son inherited from the father along-