SYLVIA ARDEN DECIDES

Sylvia Arden

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I Of Futures and Other Important Matters
II Reasons and Wraiths
III Twenty-Two
IV The Ways of a Maid
V September Afternoon
VI Of Missions, and Omissions
VII October Developments
VIII Fire and Frost
IX The Moth and the Star
X The City
XI Margins
XII "Such Stuff as Dreams"
XIII Into Haven
XIV "And Having Eyes"
XV The City and Sylvia
XVI As Might Have Been Expected
XVII Barb Diagnoses
XVIII The Cause and the Career
XIX Oh, Suzanne!
XX Sylvia and Life
XXI A Chapter of Revelations
XXII Unto the Forest
XXIII Aftermath
XXIV High Tide
XXV Warp and Woof
XXVI The End and the Beginning

SYLVIA ARDEN
DECIDES

CHAPTER I

OF FUTURES AND OTHER IMPORTANT MATTERS

"I know what the trouble with Sylvia is," announced Suzanne, elevating herself on one elbow and leaning forward out of the hammock just enough to select and appropriate a plump bonbon from the box on the wicker stand near by.

"Well," encouraged Sylvia, "what is the trouble with me?"

At the moment as she stood leaning against the massive white pillar with a smile on her lips and in her dark eyes, the sunshine glinting warm, red-gold lights in her bronze hair, it seemed as if it would be hard indeed to find any trouble with her so completely was she a picture of radiant, joyous, care-free youth.

Suzanne demolished her bonbon, then proceeded to expatiate on her original proposition.

"The trouble with you," she averred oracularly from her cushions, "is that you are addicted to the