CONTENTS

TITLES Page

The City and the World 1
The Flaming Cross 20
The Vicar-General 44
The Resurrection of Alta 53
The Man with a Dead Soul 67
The Autobiography of a Dollar 74
Le Braillard de la Magdeleine 82
The Legend of Deschamps 84
The Thousand Dollar Note 89
The Occasion 109
The Yankee Tramp 119
How Father Tom Connolly Began to Be a Saint 127
The Unbroken Seal 136
Mac of the Island 144




THE CITY AND THE WORLD


Father Denfili, old and blind, telling his beads in the corner of the
cloister garden, sighed. Father Tomasso, who had brought him from his
confessional in the great church to the bench where day after day he
kept his sightless vigil over the pond of the goldfish, turned back at
the sound, then, seeing the peace of Father Denfili's face, thought he