[Illustration: LYING WITH HIS PALLID FACE TOWARD THE SKY, HE LOOKED HANDSOME AND BOYISH AND IRRESISTIBLY LIKEABLE (_page 373_)] Mary Regan By LEROY SCOTT AUTHOR OF “Partners of the Night,” Etc. [Illustration] With Frontispiece A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York Published by arrangement with HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY LEROY SCOTT ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published January 1918_ CONTENTS I. THE WORLD SITS DOWN TOGETHER 1 II. THE RETURN OF MARY REGAN 11 III. PETER LOVEMAN 20 IV. AS MARY SEES HERSELF 34 V. CLIFFORD HAS A NEW PURPOSE 47 VI. MARY SHOWS HER HAND 55 VII. NINA CORDOVA 70 VIII. IN LOVEMAN’S LIBRARY 87 IX. THE TEST OF LIFE 100 X. THE GOLDEN DOORS 112 XI. MARY PLANS ANEW 124 XII. A GENTLEMAN OF PLEASURE 136 XIII. MR. MORTON TAKES A HAND 149 XIV. MARY FACES A CRISIS 159 XV. LOVEMAN SHOWS HIS CLAWS 169 XVI. THE STRINGS OF HUMAN NATURE 181 XVII. THE OTHER WOMAN 193 XVIII. HOW MAISIE JONES REACTED 206 XIX. MARY THINKS THINGS OUT 215 XX. CLIFFORD’S NEW ASSIGNMENT 225 XXI. AT THE MIDNIGHT CAFÉ 238 XXII. MARY MAKES AN OFFER 248 XXIII. LOVEMAN’S FINAL PLEA 264 XXIV. TWO PLEASANT GENTLEMEN 275 XXV. A FATHER’S HOPE 282 XXVI. HOW MARY’S DREAM CAME TRUE 295 XXVII. JACK MAKES A RESOLUTION 315 XXVIII. THE HOUSE OF MONSIEUR LE BAIN 324 XXIX. CLIFFORD WAITS ON GUARD 336 XXX. WHEN WOMEN NEVER TALK 344 XXXI. WHEN OLD FOES GET TOGETHER 354 XXXII. PLEASURE PRESENTS ITS BILL 363 XXXIII. THE STUFF IN MARY REGAN 378 MARY REGAN CHAPTER I THE WORLD SITS DOWN TOGETHER