Trumpet High Up Near the Moon?" _Frontispiece_

"It's So Heavenly to Have You Home" 9

Becky Drew A Sharp Breath--Then Faced
Dalton Squarely--"I Am Going to Marry Randy" 143

"Oh, Oh," She Whispered, "You Don't Know
How I Have Wanted You" 257


THE TRUMPETER SWAN




CHAPTER I

A MAJOR AND TWO MINORS


I

It had rained all night, one of the summer rains that, beginning in a
thunder-storm in Washington, had continued in a steaming drizzle until
morning.

There were only four passengers in the sleeper, men all of them--two in
adjoining sections in the middle of the car, a third in the
drawing-room, a fourth an intermittent occupant of a berth at the end.