CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THE GRAND TOUR OF JEAN JACQUES BARBILLE
CHAPTER II. "THE REST OF THE STORY TO-MORROW”
CHAPTER III. "TO-MORROW”
CHAPTER IV. THIRTEEN YEARS AFTER; CLERK OF THE COURT TELLS A STORY
CHAPTER V. THE CLERK OF THE COURT ENDS HIS STORY
CHAPTER VI. JEAN JACQUES HAD HAD A GREAT DAY
CHAPTER VII. JEAN JACQUES AWAKES FROM SLEEP
CHAPTER VIII. THE GATE IN THE WALL
CHAPTER IX. "MOI-JE SUIS PHILOSOPHE”
CHAPTER X. "QUIEN SABE”—WHO KNOWS!
CHAPTER XI. THE CLERK OF THE COURT KEEPS A PROMISE
CHAPTER XII. THE MASTER-CARPENTER HAS A PROBLEM
CHAPTER XIII. THE MAN FROM OUTSIDE
CHAPTER XIV. "I DO NOT WANT TO GO”
CHAPTER XV. BON MARCHE
CHAPTER XVI. MISFORTUNES COME NOT SINGLY
CHAPTER XVII. HIS GREATEST ASSET
CHAPTER XVIII. JEAN JACQUES HAS AN OFFER
CHAPTER XIX. SEBASTIAN DOLORES DOES NOT SLEEP
CHAPTER XX. "AU ‘VOIR, M’SIEU’ JEAN JACQUES”
CHAPTER XXI. IF SHE HAD KNOWN IN TIME
CHAPTER XXII. BELLS OF MEMORY
CHAPTER XXIII. JEAN JACQUES HAS WORK TO DO
CHAPTER XXIV. JEAN JACQUES ENCAMPED
CHAPTER XXV. WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?
EPILOGUE.
This book is in a place by itself among the novels I have written. Many critics said that it was a welcome return to Canada, where I had made my first success in the field of fiction. This statement was only meagrely accurate, because since ‘The Right of Way’ was published in 1901 I had written, and given to the public, ‘Northern Lights’, a book of short stories, ‘You Never Know Your Luck’, a short novel, and ‘The World for Sale’, though all of these dealt with life in Western Canada, and not with the life of the French Canadians, in which field I had made my first firm impression upon the public. In any case