XV IN WHICH WE FIND THE HAUNTED WOOD 151 XVI IN WHICH I AM RID OF AN UNPROFITABLE SERVANT 161 XVII IN WHICH MY LORD AND I PLAY AT BOWLS 172 XVIII IN WHICH WE GO OUT INTO THE NIGHT 185 XIX IN WHICH WE HAVE UNEXPECTED COMPANY 196 XX IN WHICH WE ARE IN DESPERATE CASE 206 XXI IN WHICH A GRAVE IS DIGGED 216 XXII IN WHICH I CHANGE MY NAME AND OCCUPATION 226 XXIII IN WHICH WE WRITE UPON THE SAND 238 XXIV IN WHICH WE CHOOSE THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS 250 XXV IN WHICH MY LORD HATH HIS DAY 261 XXVI IN WHICH I AM BROUGHT TO TRIAL 272 XXVII IN WHICH I FIND AN ADVOCATE 281 XXVIII IN WHICH THE SPRINGTIME IS AT HAND 294 XXIX IN WHICH I KEEP TRYST 306 XXX IN WHICH WE START UPON A JOURNEY 322 XXXI IN WHICH NANTAUQUAS COMES TO OUR RESCUE 333 XXXII IN WHICH WE ARE THE GUESTS OF AN EMPEROR 348 XXXIII IN WHICH MY FRIEND BECOMES MY FOE 362 XXXIV IN WHICH THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT 375 XXXV IN WHICH I COME TO THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSE 385 XXXVI IN WHICH I HEAR ILL NEWS 397 XXXVII IN WHICH MY LORD AND I PART COMPANY 409 XXXVIII IN WHICH I GO UPON A QUEST 419 XXXIX IN WHICH WE LISTEN TO A SONG 430 CHAPTER I In which I Throw Ambs-ace The work of the day being over, I sat down upon my doorstep, pipe in hand, to rest awhile in the cool of the evening. Death is not more still than is this Virginian land in the hour when the sun has sunk away, and it is black beneath the trees, and the stars brighten slowly and softly, one by one. The birds that sing all day have hushed, and the horned owls, the monster frogs, and that strange and ominous fowl (if fowl it be, and not, as some assert, a spirit damned) which we English call the whippoorwill, are yet silent. Later the wolf will howl and the panther scream, but now there is no sound. The winds are laid, and the restless leaves droop and are quiet. The low lap of the water among the reeds is like the breathing of one who sleeps in his watch beside the dead.