IV. THE SIMPLE LIFE OF GENEVIEVE MAUD
V. HIS BOY
VI. THE COMMUNITY'S SUNBEAM
VII. IN MEMORY OF HANNAH'S LAUGH
VIII. THE QUEST OF AUNT NANCY
IX. THE HENRY SMITHS' HONEYMOON
X. THE CASE OF KATRINA
XI. BART HARRINGTON, GENIUS




I

VARICK'S LADY O' DREAMS


Varick laid down the book with which he had beguiled an hour of the
night, turned off the electric light in the shaded globe that hung
above his head, pulled the sheets a little nearer his chin, reversed
his pillow that he might rest his cheek more gratefully on the cooler
linen, stretched, yawned, and composed himself to slumber with an
absolutely untroubled conscience.

He was an eminently practical and almost rudely healthy young man,
with an unreflecting belief in the existence of things he had seen,
and considerable doubt concerning those which he had not seen. In his
heart he regarded sentiment as the expression of a flabby nature in a
feeble body. Once or twice he had casually redressing-case, with its
array of silver toilet articles, the solid front of his chiffonnier,