Produced by David Edwards, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * Comrades [Illustration] Thomas Dixon JR. [Illustration: NORMAN CLASPED HER IN HIS ARMS.] COMRADES _A STORY OF SOCIAL ADVENTURE IN CALIFORNIA_ BY THOMAS DIXON, Jr. Illustrated by C.D. WILLIAMS [Illustration] GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers :: New York ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THOMAS DIXON, JR. PUBLISHED, JANUARY, 1909 DEDICATED TO THE DEAREST LITTLE GIRL IN THE WORLD, MY DAUGHTER LOUISE CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. The Woman in Red 3 II. A New Joan of Arc 19 III. The Birth of a Man 31 IV. Among the Shadows 37 V. The Island of Ventura 48 VI. The Red Flag 56 VII. Father and Son 73 VIII. Through the Eyes of Love 85 IX. A Faded Picture 90 X. Son and Father 93 XI. The Way of a Woman 103 XII. A Royal Gift 105 XIII. The Burning of the Bridges 110 XIV. The New World 118 XV. For the Cause 123 XVI. Barbara Chooses a Profession 130 XVII. A Call for Heroes 134 XVIII. A New Aristocracy 151 XIX. Some Troubles in Heaven 166 XX. The Unconventional 181 XXI. A Pair of Cold Gray Eyes 186