AT LARGE

Copyright, 1902, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

All rights reserved

Published February, 1902

trow directory
printing and bookbinding company
new york

CONTENTS

Page

• A Nucleus of Fortune 1
• Sundown 11
• After Four Years 20
• How Dick Came Home 28
• The First Evening at Graysbrooke 41
• Sisyphus 53
• South Kensington 64
• The Admirable Miles 72
• A Dancing Lesson and its Consequences 86
• An Old Friend and an Old Memory 98
• Dressing, Dancing, Looking on 109
• "To-Morrow, and To-Morrow, and To-Morrow" 123
• In Bushey Park 132
• Quits 152
• The Morning After 163
• Military Manœuvres 174
• "Miles's Beggars" 185
• Alice Speaks for Herself 196
• Conterminous Courses 206
• Strange Humility 216
• An Altered Man 227
• Extremities 234
• The Effect of a Photograph 244
• The Effect of a Song 256
• Melmerbridge Church 271
• At Bay 286
• The Fatal Tress 296
• The Effort 307
• Elizabeth Ryan 313
• Sweet Revenge 325
• The Charity of Silence 333
• Suspense: Reaction 343
• How Dick Said Good-Bye 353

AT LARGE

At Large

I

A NUCLEUS OF FORTUNE

A hooded wagon was creeping across a depressing desert in the middle of Australia; layers of boxes under the hood, and of brass-handled, mahogany drawers below the boxes, revealed the licensed hawker of the bush. Now, the hawker out there is a very extensive