| CONTENTS | |
|---|---|
| Kerfol | Edith Wharton |
| The Chink and the Child | Thomas Burke |
| The Nomad | Robert Hichens |
| The Crucifixion of The Outcast | W. B. Yeats |
| The Drums of Kairwan | The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston |
| A Life—A Bowl of Rice | L. De Bra |
| Hodge | Elinor Mordaunt |
| Hatteras | A. W. Mason |
| The Ransom | Cutliffe Hyne |
| The Other Twin | Edwin Pugh |
| The Narrow Way | R. Ellis Roberts |
| Davy Jones’s Gift | John Masefield |
| The Call of the Hand | Louis Golding |
| The Sentimental Mortgage | Arthur Lynch |
| Captain Sharkey | A. Conan Doyle |
| Violence | Algernon Blackwood |
| The Reward of Enterprise | Ward Muir |
| Grear’s Dam | Morley Roberts |
| The King of Maleka | H. De Vere Stacpoole |
| Alleluia | T. F. Powys |
| The Monkey’s Paw | W. W. Jacobs |
| The Creatures | Walter de la Mare |
| The Taipan | W. Somerset Maugham |
By EDITH WHARTON
From Xingu and Other Stories, by Edith Wharton. Copyright, 1917,by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
“You ought to buy it,” said my host; “it’s just the place for asolitary-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while toown the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are deadbroke, and it’s going for a song—you ought to buy it.”
It was not with the least idea of living up to the character my friendLanrivain ascribed to me (as a matter of fact, under my unsociableexterior I have always had secret yearnings for domesticity) that I tookhis hint one autumn afternoon and went to Kerfol. My friend was motoringover to Quimper on business: he dropped me on the way, at a cross-roadon a hea