[Illustration: The MM Co.] [Illustration: “_So they marched away to the tune of ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me’_”] [Illustration] HEIMWEH THE SIREN ✳ ✳ ✳ THE LOADED GUN ✳ ✳ LIEBEREICH. ✳ “IUPITER TONANS” ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ “SIS”. THOR’S EMERALD ✳ ✳ GUILE ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ _By_ JOHN LUTHER LONG _Author of_ “MADAME BUTTERFLY” “NAUGHTY NAN” “MISS CHERRY BLOSSOM” “THE FOX WOMAN” _Etc._ _ILLUSTRATED_ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY _NEW YORK MCMV_ LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published August, 1905. =Norwood Press= J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. WHETHER YOU BE SICK WITH LONGING FOR THESE SQUALID HOMES ON EARTH WHERE LOVE IS NEVER SURE—OR FOR THOSE SPLENDID MANSIONS IN OUR FATHER’S HOUSE WHERE IT WAITS ALWAYS—THESE ARE FOR YOU ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ [Music: Heimweh, Heimweh, himmlisches Sehnen, Das nach Liebe, das nach Lieben in der fernen Heimath krankt.] THE CONTENTS _HEIMWEH_ PAGE I Life has no Future at Twenty-one 3 II Happiness is Better than Church 8 III Open the Door to Joy—Always 12 IV War is Glorious at the Beginning, but not at the End 16 V We go out to Fight under the Flag; we Return—under It 19 VI Growing Old is only an Idea—until we Know 22 VII Making Believe brings Things 27 VIII The End of Life is as its Beginning—Simple 31 IX Good Baskets must keep their Bottoms 35 X Things feel Heavier in Age 41 XI But the Poor-house may be One of the Mansions in Our Father’s House 47 _THE SIREN_