The Happy Warrior

I. A PAGE OF THE PEERAGE II. A CHANGE IN THE PEERAGE III. INTO THE PEERAGE IV. A FORETASTE OF THE PEERAGE V. MISREADING A PEERESS VI. MISCALCULATING A PEER

I. LOVE TRIMS WRECKERS' LAMPS II. LOVE LEADS AN EXPEDITION INTO THE UNFORESEEN III. A LOVERS' LITANY IV. WHAT THE TOOO-FIRTY WINNER BROUGHT MRS. ERPS V. WHAT AUDREY BROUGHT LADY...

I. PERCIVAL HAS A PEEP AT THE 'NORMOUS II. FOLLOWS A FROG AND FINDS A TADPOLE III. LADY BURDON COMES TO "POST OFFIC" IV. LITTLE 'ORSES AND LITTLE STU-PIDS V. THE WORLD AS SHOWMA...

I. PLANS AND DREAMS AND PROMISES II. FEARS AND VISIONS AND DISCOVERIES III. A FRIEND UNCHANGED--AND A FRIEND GROWN IV. IMA'S LESSONS V. JAPHRA'S LESSONS VI. WITH IMA ON PLOWMAN'...

I. BOSS MADDOX SHOWS HIS HAND II. IMA SHOWS HER HEART III. PERCIVAL SHOWS HIS FISTS IV. FOXY PINSENT _v._ JAPHRA'S GENTLEMAN V. A FIGHT THAT IS TOLD VI. THE STICKS COME OUT--AND...

This life we stumble through, or strut through, or through which we creep and whine, or through which we dance and whistle, is built upon hazard--and that is why it is such a ve...

This hazard foundation of life! As a stone tossed down a hillside dislodges others and sets them rolling, themselves dislodging more till the first light pitch will gather to a...

It made Mrs. Letham very excited. Mrs. Letham, coming upon it as she idly turned over the newspaper at her breakfast, took a bang at the heart that for the moment made the print...

A worrying morning foreshadowed--or might have foreshadowed--to Egbert Hunt the strain and distress of the afternoon whose effect upon him we have seen. Normally his master was...

Events fell out much as the new Lady Burdon had planned. On the day following the news, the new Lord Burdon wrote a few sympathetic lines to Jane Lady Burdon; two days later he...

The little clock that is perched high over the vast fireplace in the library at Burdon House, Mount Street, marks a shade before ten of the evening. Its delicate ticking joins w...

On a May morning, then, love in his heart, purpose in his eye, gathering in his careless hand the meshes that he is going to tug, shaking the unconsidered lives they bind--Rollo...

He married her--and wearied of her. Within two months of when he called her wife--and pressed her to him and kissed her for the fondness of that name, and chaffed her with "Wife...

Bitter days--but suddenly breaking to dawn. There came to him, on the rack of this torment, a thought that tortured him anew, yet made for healing. Audrey? Even if, as in his ex...

Come to her in the month of January. Bridge those long weeks wherein she lived from mail day to mail day--as one not strong that has a weary mile to cover and walks from seat to...

It was very dim in the library. Above the centre of the room light stood in soft points upon a high chandelier. A fire burnt low within the shelter of the great hearth. The rest...

The driver of a four-wheeled cab, crawling down Mount Street, pushed along his horse when he saw Audrey walking with very slow and uncertain steps ahead of him. He drew into pac...

That day of Audrey's death was in two minds at two breakfasts in different quarters of London on a morning some while later. In the Mount Street house Jane Lady Burdon, starting...

Young Percival was seven--rising eight--when he first saw Burdon Old Manor. Miss Oxford had taken him for a walk, and they were in the direction of the Manor grounds, a locality...

The acquaintance with slave Egbert was very shortly renewed. The afternoon of the Friday that was to see the arrival of the Burdons at the Old Manor brought also a threshing-eng...

In the morning Lady Burdon came with Rollo to make her request that Percival might spend much of his time at the Old Manor as Rollo's playmate. In these seven years since the am...

It was the happiest party that occupied the wagonette on that drive to and from Mr. Hannaford's farm at Market Roding. Lord Burdon, Rollo, Percival--each declared it that evenin...

The stay at Burdon Old Manor came to an end; it had been so productive of health and happiness in Rollo, he became, as years went on, so much more and more devoted to Percival,...

And there were three new friends who contributed to this happy, happy time and who came vitally to contribute to later years. There were Japhra and Ima, who lived in a yellow ca...

This began in a visit that Lady Burdon, very decidedly out of temper, paid to Mr. Pemberton at the office in Bedford Row. Relations between Lady Burdon and the little old lawyer...

Three women were counting the years now. The years were rolling up--curtain by curtain, like mists from a distant hillside; and behind them the ultimate prospects for which Lady...

Percival took the highroad with the one desire to be alone--to walk far and to walk fast. The prodding of his mind that goaded him, "I'm growing--I'm losing time--I'm settling i...

An hour at that pace brought him above Great Letham, clustered below. He paused irresolutely. From among the roofs, as it were, a crawling train emerged. He watched it worm its...

She had odd ways, Percival found--oddly attractive; sometimes oddly disconcerting. She did not at first contribute to the conversation while they ate. She was very quiet; and th...

Japhra took up Ima's words when she had left them. "Nay, but the boxing is my business," Japhra said, filling his pipe. "I'm for the boxing again this summer. Money's short and...

Ima had put on shoes and stockings when she reappeared from the van and joined Percival to accompany him to the Ridge. The two were come almost to the Down's skirt before they e...

She was as quickly gone from Percival's mind as from his sight. Now that he was free and alone--as he had wished to be alone--he faced about with an abrupt movement and began to...

There was just the chance! "Ah, Chance be kind!" his prayer, but in the simpler form: "If only I can see her!" For he could not have told himself precisely what he desired of he...

It was past eleven when Percival got back to "Post Offic." He had been absent seven hours. He felt himself removed by thrice as many years from the moment when he had flung away...

In the morning when he came early to her room, she was easier and able only to suffer her distress at losing him. Thoughts had come to her, helping her; and helping her the more...

It was two years--near enough--before Percival came again to Burdon Village. Egbert Hunt found work with old One Eye who had the Wild West Rifle Range. Percival became "Japhra's...

The first winter of this life Percival spent with Japhra in the van; the second took him, for the first time since he had broken away, back to "Post Offic." Ima left them, when...

It was in dreams that night that vague, secret influences of his sight of Burdon House came stealing about him--if such they were; he attributed them to the disturbance of an ev...

Percival was not the only one that in this period was disturbed by uneasy dreams, by vague and strange half-thoughts, by "thinking without thinking," as though some other influe...

Stranger how tricks and chances of life go! This trick and that--and this was to be his last night with the van folk. That chance and this--and within a few hours he was to be r...

Percival suggested to Ima that they should use in a stroll the leisure evening that the trouble in the vans had given him. Some drink had been passing as the day wore on, and th...

He ran in two moods. First he was earnest above all things to hold her hands and comfort her--to explain, to soothe, to endear. To hold her hands and tell her how fond, how very...

Visitors to the booths who had stayed late that night went home complaining of the abruptness with which the shows were closed and of the uncouth way in which showmen who had fa...

They tell that fight along the road to-day. Old men who saw it want never a listener when the talk turns on boxing and they can say: "Ah, but I saw Japhra's Gentleman and Foxy P...

"Why, my face is sore," Percival said--"sore! it feels as if I had only a square inch of skin stretched to cover the lot. I'm right as rain otherwise. That was a fight, Japhra!"

Japhra and Ima, waiting the doctor's arrival, watched and tended the signs of how, as Japhra had said, the night had struck Percival down. From the moment of his collapse in Jap...

Ima's nursing, as that doctor had said, brought Percival back from where he had been driven beyond the mark by stress of events and put him firmly afoot along the road of conval...

"Mine will come out right." But Percival's twenty-first birthday, that was to have seen the consummation of Aunt Maggie's plan, came--and Aunt Maggie held her hand and let it go.

Often in these weeks the three rode together; seldom Percival and Dora met out of Rollo's company. Brief moments while they waited him, brief moments when he rode ahead of them,...

The great Argentine trip--an affair of so much consequence in its bearing on the development of pony-breeding as to attract the attention of the "Field" in a series of articles...

"So you're no hand at guessing, partner. Own up to that," was Mr. Hannaford's response. Then he cried, "Hi, what's up with 'ee? What be doing?" for Percival had stretched a sudd...

There had been one years before that had cried, "You are Lord Burdon!" and one that had received it, first in light mock at its folly, then in bewilderment at its truth. There w...

He came over against Burdon Old Manor and stopped and knew himself where he had stood with Dora three hours before. His exertions had run him to the end of his physical strength...