XIII. _In which Appears a General of Division, and one of "the Brethren"_ 164 XIV. _In which Mavering Concludes that Cavalry Officers as a Class are Eccentric and Deep_ 181 XV. _Treats of the Distribution of Tracts in the Valley of the Shenandoah_ 192 XVI. _Which Discloses one Daddy Joe, and Disposes of an Evangelist_ 207 XVII. _On the Question of the Exact Location of the Divinity which is Ultimately Called Worth While_ 223 XVIII. _In which there is Discovered a Compunction_ 235 XIX. _In which Windham Drops Out of the Fight--and Mavering Remarks on Human Adaptability_ 253 XX. _Treats of Further Incidents in the House with the White Door_ 264 XXI. _In which We Go Down the River and Return_ 274 XXII. _Of Mavering, who Disappears--Of the Gray Poet--Of Morgan, Who Appears Once More_ 286 XXIII. _The End_ 307 Part I "The Debatable Land" Chapter I "Hinter die Kirche blühe die blaue Blume der Zufriedenheit."--MEISTER ECKHART. Widow Bourn's house stood behind the church, and blue flowers grew contentedly on the sloping green, shy fancies of a maiden spring that never lasted out a summer's experience. New England churches have not that air of nestling comfort which seemed to Meister Eckhart so sweet a symbol. They crown the hills with square frames and sharpened steeples, churches militant, plate-mailed in clapboards, with weather-vane aimed defiantly into the wind. Their doors are closed, their windows shuttered against all days of the week saving one. But Widow Bourn found the proximity comfortable. The church militant faced the issues of the spirit for her, and subdued them. She plodded through her Bible, drawing contentment from texts that meant no such matter, seeing in the ecclesiast's despondency only reflections connected here and there with sermons. "It is a pleasant thing to stand on the shore when other people are in the floods," the melancholy Roman poet remarked, meaning that it _would be_, because it was something his ever-journeying spirit in the waste seas of thought rendered impracticable for himself.