Wanderfoot (The Dream Ship)

FRANCE XIII. The Ways of a Lover XIV. The Ways of Literature XV. Ways Sacred and Secular XVI. The Ways of Girls XVII. The Ways of Boys XVIII. The Way of The S...

SECRET PALACES "Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion." The _Bavaric_ had been four fine September days at sea, and it was time for the vague pain and melan...

GREY AND GOLD "Two shall be born the whole wide world apart, And speak in different tongues, and have no thought Each of the other's being, and no heed; And these,...

FATE'S WINDING PATHS "Does the road wind uphill all the way? Yes, to the weary end." With Westenra's kiss still warm on her lips Valentine Valdana knelt in her cabin, e...

A SKELETON AND A SHRINE "The heart of a pure man is a deep vase." And while Valentine stayed on her knees thanking God for the happiness that had come to her, Garr...

SQUIRREL IN A TRAP "Do not thou make answer to an angry master." "O speak that which is soft while he is uttering that which is of wrath." _Maxims of Art_. ...

KISSES AND CROSSES "For 'Im and 'E and 'It (An' Two an' One makes Three)." KIPLING. Acquaintance with a further element in her husband's life to which she had so fa...

MORE WINDING PATHS "There is a crack in everything God has made." EMERSON. There is a saying that during the hot weather every one in New York, except doctors and cats,...

WOUNDS IN THE RAIN "What will you do, love? When I am going With white sail flowing, The seas beyond? What will you do, love? When waves divide us An...

NEW ROADS TO FORTUNE "God delights to isolate us every day, and hide from us the past and the future."--EMERSON. Jersey, a small and smiling island set amidst the boisterous seas...

WORRY-BELLS "Tout homme digne de ce nom A dans le coeur un Serpent jaune Installe comme sur un trone, Qui, s'il dit: 'Je veux!' repond: 'Non!'" BAUDELAIRE. ...

A SHIP ON THE ROCKS "Love is not always two Souls picking flowers."--MASEFIELD. These decisions did not prevent her from spending days and nights in an agony of mental and physic...

CHILDREN OF ISHMAEL "Life tests a plough in meadows made of stones, Love takes a toll of spirit, mind, and bones." MASEFIELD. Raging he went from English shores. Ra...

THE WAYS OF A LOVER "For life is not the thing we thought, and not the thing we plan."--ROBERT SERVICE. March was in like a lamb, and on a fair morning all the windows of Villa D...

THE WAYS OF LITERATURE "The voyage of even the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks." From Jersey Val had made a bee-line for Paris which she knew well, and where she ha...

WAYS SACRED AND SECULAR "A gentleman makes no noise: a lady is serene."--EMERSON. In May, the gentle month of May, the weather cleared up again, and green things commenced to spr...

THE WAYS OF GIRLS "Il n'est pas de rose assez tendre Sur la palette du printemps, Madame, pour oser pretendre Lutter contre vos dix-sept ans." GAUTIER. "Did...

THE WAYS OF BOYS "For every grain of wit a grain of folly." All the same, Val and Harry were beginning to say to each other, "What next?" It was a great relief th...

THE WAYS OF A LOVER THE WAY OF THE SEA "All the great things of life are simply done, Creation, Death, and Love the Double Gate." MASEFIELD. One morning Harrio...

THE WAY OF NEMESIS "Spring is dead, And summer is dead. Oh! my heart, And, oh! my head!" It had always been understood that after the summer Haidee was to go back...

THE WAYS OF LIFE AND DEATH "Oh them who plantest in the eyes and hearts of girls The cult of wounding and the barbs of love!" Translation from BAUDELAIRE'S Litany to...

LONELY WAYS "I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end."--A. C. SWINBURNE. But for the time being she went no farther than to the South of France. No...

THE WAY OF LOVE "The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul."--EMERSON. The Lempriere hat Haidee had on, though it was only a tr...