ENTER MR. SCATCHERD 237 BARTY GIVES HIMSELF AWAY 243 SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR 245 "'HÉLAS! MON JEUNE AMI ...'" 251 "'YOU ASK ME WHY I LOOK SO PALE?'" 277 "'YOU DON'T MEAN TO SAY YOU'RE GOING TO PAINT FOR HIRE!'" 281 "'HE MIGHT HAVE THROWN THE HANDKERCHIEF AS HE PLEASED'" 287 DR. HASENCLEVER AND MRS. BLETCHLEY 305 "'MARTIA, I HAVE DONE MY BEST'" 311 AM RHEIN 315 "'DOES SHE KNOW YOU'RE VERY FOND OF HER?'" 319 "LEAH WAS SUMMONED FROM BELOW" 333 "BETWEEN TWO WELL KNOWN EARLS" 341 "LE DERNIER DES ABENCERRAGES" 345 "SARDONYX" 355 "'RATAPLAN, RATAPLAN'" 359 "'HE PRESENTS ME FIRST TO MADAME JOSSELIN'" 387 "'I DON'T THINK I EVER HEARD HIM MENTION YOUR NAME'" 401 "'I'M A PHILISTINE, AND AM NOT ASHAMED'" 411 "'ZE BRINCESS VOULD BE SO JARMT'" 431 MARTY 453 THE MARTIAN "BARTY JOSSELIN IS NO MORE...." When so great a man dies, it is generally found that a tangled growth of more or less contentious literature has already gathered round his name during his lifetime. He has been so written about, so talked about, so riddled with praise or blame, that, to those who have never seen him in the flesh, he has become almost a tradition, a myth--and one runs the risk of losing all clew to his real personality. This is especially the case with the subject of this biography--one is in danger of forgetting what manner of man he was who has so taught and touched and charmed and amused us, and so happily changed for us the current of our lives. He has been idealized as an angel, a saint, and a demigod; he has been caricatured as a self-indulgent sensualist, a vulgar Lothario, a buffoon, a joker of practical jokes.