Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE CHALLONERS THIRD EDITION _Selected Fiction_ OLIVE LATHAM _By E. L. Voynich_ $1.50 THE ISSUE _By George Morgan_ Illustrated. $1.50 AN ANGEL BY BREVET _By Helen Pitkin_ Frontispiece. $1.50 THE NEVER-NEVER LAND _By Wilson Barrett_ $1.50 POKETOWN PEOPLE _By Ella Middleton Tybout_ Illustrated in colors. $1.50 HEART OF LYNN _By Mary Stewart Cutting_ Illustrated. $1.25 PIGS IN CLOVER _By Frank Danby_ $1.50 A SEQUENCE IN HEARTS _By Mary Moss_ $1.50 KITTY OF THE ROSES _By Ralph Henry Barbour_ Illustrated in colors. $2.00 NEW SAMARIA _By S. Weir Mitchell, M.D._ Illustrated. $1.25 THE CHALLONERS _by_ E. F. BENSON AUTHOR OF “DODO,” ETC. “O world, as God has made it! all is beauty; And knowing this, is love, and love is duty. What further may be sought for or declared?” _The Guardian Angel._--R. BROWNING [Illustration: colophon] PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1904 [Illustration: text decoration] COPYRIGHT, 1904 BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Published July, 1904 _Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A._ THE CHALLONERS [Illustration: text decoration] CHAPTER I