I. SHE RETURNS FOR THE NEW SEASON
II. MISGIVINGS ON THE RE-EMBODIMENT
III. THE RENEWED IMAGE BURNS ITSELF IN
IV. A DASH FOR THE LAST INCARNATION
V. ON THE VERGE OF POSSESSION
VI. THE WELL-BELOVED IS--WHERE?
VII. AN OLD TABERNACLE IN A NEW ASPECT
VIII. 'ALAS FOR THIS GREY SHADOW, ONCE A MAN!'



PART FIRST -- A YOUNG MAN OF TWENTY.

--'Now, if Time knows
That Her, whose radiant brows
Weave them a garland of my vows;

Her that dares be
What these lines wish to see:
I seek no further, it is She.'
--R. CRASHAW.



1. I. A SUPPOSITITIOUS PRESENTMENT OF HER

A person who differed from the local wayfarers was climbing the steep
road which leads through the sea-skirted townlet definable as the
Street of Wells, and forms a pass into that Gibraltar of Wessex, the