IN WHICH THE RIVER LEAPS A SUDDEN CLIFF AND BECOMES A CATARACT XXIII. Fate Spreads Her Net 213 XXIV. Our Second Summer in Eden 221 XXV. The Island Tomb 231 XXVI. A Handful of Memories 235 PART VIII IN WHICH THE RIVER RUSHES INTO PERILOUS RAPIDS XXVII. We Bring Our Pearl to Market 247 XXVIII. Arabian Nights in England 257 XXIX. Fate Grips Her Landing Net 273 PART IX IN WHICH THE RIVER FINDS THE SEA XXX. A Terror in the Snow 279 XXXI. Fate Empties Her Creel 289 XXXII. The Sunset End 294 * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS They Crooned Together There, the Woman, the Child and the Birds _Frontispiece_ PAGE Scooped Hundreds--Perhaps Thousands--Out of a Chest to Flee at Dawn 43 The Tall, Gaunt, Silent Woman ... Striding Through the Pastures 49 I Seem to See ... a Beautiful Woman in a Blue Dress Sitting Under a Fruit Tree 105 Persons Born in That Month of That Year Will Never Be Otherwise Than Far Out of the Ordinary 132 Margarita Stopped and Stared at It Several Minutes 144 For Hours and Hours I Walked, Muttering and Cursing 163 Her Weekly Check, Plus a Draft for a Hundred Pounds 174 She Spins Her Hemp and Weaves Osiers into Baskets and Changes Them for Goats' Hams 204 The Gloomy, Faded Glories of the Musty Palace 208 Ah, Faithful Caliban, What Hours of Terrible Tuition Made Thy Task Clear to Thee! 233 He Sketched Her in Charcoal, Dressed (He Would Have It) in Black 240 It Was After the Garden Love-Scene That She Won Her Recalls 250 They Are Still as Death, Tranced in Those Liquid Bell-Tones 270 I Leaned Over the Bank and Cried That I Was There, But She Never Stopped--It Was Terrible 281 It Is a Favourite Claim of Ours Who Are Bidden to That Home That It Is an Enchanted Isle 296 * * * * * PART ONE IN WHICH YOU SEE A SECRET SPRING O I have seen a fair mermaid, That sang beside a lonely sea, And now her long black hair she'll braid, And be my own good wife to me.