Produced by Susan Skinner, Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net THE SENSATIONALISTS: II THE EDUCATION OF ERIC LANE STEPHEN McKENNA * * * * * By STEPHEN McKENNA THE SENSATIONALISTS PART ONE: LADY LILITH PART TWO: THE EDUCATION OF ERIC LANE PART THREE: _In preparation_ SONIA MARRIED SONIA MIDAS AND SON NINETY-SIX HOURS' LEAVE THE SIXTH SENSE SHEILA INTERVENES NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY * * * * * THE EDUCATION OF ERIC LANE BY STEPHEN McKENNA AUTHOR OF "LADY LILITH," "SONIA MARRIED," "MIDAS AND SON," "SONIA," "NINETY-SIX HOURS' LEAVE," ETC. NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY * * * * * COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA * * * * * TO THE WITTIEST WOMAN IN LONDON * * * * * CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I AN EXPERIMENT IN EMOTION 11 II LADY BARBARA NEAVE 52 III LASHMAR MILL-HOUSE 88 IV INTERMEZZO 120 V MORTMAIN 149 VI DAME'S SCHOOL EDUCATION 184 VII EDUCATION FOR THOSE OF RIPER YEARS 210 VIII THE STRONGEST THING OF ALL 237 IX THE EDUCATION OF BARBARA NEAVE 260 THE EDUCATION OF ERIC LANE "Because lust was not good enough, the Celt invented romance." --SHANE LESLIE: _The End of a Chapter._ THE EDUCATION OF ERIC LANE CHAPTER ONE AN EXPERIMENT IN EMOTION ". . . A genial . . . bachelor, whom the outside world called selfish because it derived no particular benefit from him. . . ." OSCAR WILDE: "THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY." 1