[Cover Illustration] =BY THE SAME AUTHOR= Published by WARD, LOCK & CO., LTD. ________ THE “BERRY” BOOKS THE BROTHER OF DAPHNE THE COURTS OF IDLENESS BERRY AND CO. JONAH AND CO. ADÈLE AND CO. AND BERRY CAME TOO THE HOUSE THAT BERRY BUILT THE “CHANDOS” BOOKS BLIND CORNER PERISHABLE GOODS BLOOD ROYAL FIRE BELOW SHE FELL AMONG THIEVES AN EYE FOR A TOOTH RED IN THE MORNING OTHER VOLUMES THE STOLEN MARCH THIS PUBLICAN ANTHONY LYVEDEN VALERIE FRENCH SAFE CUSTODY STORM MUSIC AND FIVE WERE FOOLISH AS OTHER MEN ARE MAIDEN STAKES SHE PAINTED HER FACE GALE WARNING SHOAL WATER PERIOD STUFF AS OTHER MEN ARE BY DORNFORD YATES W A R D , L O C K & C O . , L I M I T E D LONDON AND MELBOURNE _First Edition_............... _1925_ _Reprinted_................... _1930_ _Reprinted_................... _1934_ _Reprinted_................... _1938_ _Reprinted_................... _1941_ _Reprinted_................... _1942_ _Reprinted_................... _1943_ _Reprinted_................... _1944_ _Reprinted_................... _1945_ MADE IN ENGLAND Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London _To those, alive or dead, with whom I had the honour to serve overseas, during the Great War._ CONTENTS PAGE JEREMY.................................. 11 SIMON................................... 43 TOBY.................................... 73 OLIVER.................................. 105 CHRISTOPHER............................. 133 IVAN.................................... 163 HUBERT.................................. 195 TITUS................................... 223 PEREGRINE............................... 261 DERRY................................... 287 JEREMY JEREMY Eve Malory Carew tilted her sweet pretty chin. “It’s my hair,” she said. “Exactly,” said Jeremy Broke. “That’s why to cut it would be so—so blasphemous. If it was anybody else’s, it’d be their funeral. But your hair’s a sort of national treasure, like Ann Hathaway’s Cottage or Arthur’s Seat—I mean, Leith Hill. It’s not really yours to cut.”