Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber's Notes: The frontispiece illustration has been removed from text version. Italics in original are marked with _underscores_. Small caps have been changed to ALL CAPS. Punctuation has been regularized. The following typographical corrections were made: p. 517, "dumurely" changed to "demurely." (the Nun admitted demurely) p. 536, "that's he" changed to "that he's." (that he's terribly) p. 539, "thing" changed to "think," (think you're perfectly) SECOND STRING BY ANTHONY HOPE THOMAS NELSON AND SONS LONDON, EDINBURGH, DUBLIN, LEEDS, AND NEW YORK LEIPZIG: 35-37 Königstrasse. PARIS: 61 Rue des Saints Pères. First Published 1910. CONTENTS. I. HOME AGAIN 5 II. A VERY LITTLE HUNTING 27 III. THE POTENT VOICE 45 IV. SETTLED PROGRAMMES 66 V. BROADENING LIFE 87 VI. THE WORLDS OF MERITON 106 VII. ENTERING FOR THE RACE 128 VIII. WONDERFUL WORDS 148 IX. "INTERJECTION" 169 X. FRIENDS IN NEED 190 XI. THE SHAWL BY THE WINDOW 212 XII. CONCERNING A STOLEN KISS 235 XIII. A LOVER LOOKS PALE 256 XIV. SAVING THE NATION 278 XV. LOVE AND FEAR 300 XVI. A CHOICE OF EVILS 321 XVII. REFORMATION 342 XVIII. PENITENCE AND PROBLEMS 362 XIX. MARKED MONEY 384 XX. NO GOOD? 404 XXI. THE EMPTY PLACE 424 XXII. GRUBBING AWAY 446 XXIII. A STOP-GAP 468 XXIV. PRETTY MUCH THE SAME! 490 XXV. THE LAST FIGHT 512 XXVI. TALES OUT OF SCHOOL FOR ONCE 533 XXVII. NOT OF HIS SEEKING 555 SECOND STRING. Chapter I. HOME AGAIN.