[Illustration: cover] [Illustration: title_page] The Young Enchanted _A ROMANTIC STORY_ by HUGH WALPOLE GROSSET & DUNLAP _Publishers_ _by arrangement with_ Doubleday-Doran & Company, Inc. COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO MY FRIEND LAURITZ MELCHIOR AND, THROUGH HIM, TO ALL MY FRIENDS IN DENMARK THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED MOTTO "This minute that comes to me over the past Decillions. There is no better than it And now. What behaves well In the past or behaves well To-day is not such a wonder. The wonder is always and Always how there can be A mean man or an infidel." WALT WHITMAN. CONTENTS BOOK I: TWO DAYS CHAPTER PAGE I THE SCARLET FEATHER 13 II HENRY HIMSELF 28 III MILLIE 49 IV HENRY'S FIRST DAY 64 V THE THREE FRIENDS 74 BOOK II: HIGH SUMMER I SECOND PHASE OF THE ADVENTURE 83 II MILLIE AND PETER 97 III THE LETTERS 113 IV THE CAULDRON 129 V MILLIE IN LOVE 138 VI HENRY AT DUNCOMBE 156 VII AND PETER IN LONDON 163 BOOK III: FIRST BRUSH WITH THE ENEMY I ROMANCE AND CLADGATE 175 II LIFE, DEATH AND FRIENDSHIP 195 III HENRY IN LOVE 212 IV DEATH OF MRS. TRENCHARD 222 V NOTHING IS PERFECT 229 VI THE RETURN 236 VII DUNCOMBE SAYS GOOD-BYE 247 VIII HERE COURAGE IS NEEDED 259 IX QUICK GROWTH 268 BOOK IV: KNIGHT ERRANT I MRS. TENSSEN'S MIND IS MADE UP AT LAST 281 II HENRY MEETS MRS. WESTCOTT 286 III A DEATH AND A BATTLE 292 IV MILLIE RECOVERS HER BREATH 302 V AND FINDS SOMEONE WORSE OFF THAN HERSELF 309 VI CLARE GOES 317 VII THE RESCUE 320 VIII THE MOMENT 324 IX THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR 328 X THE BEGINNING 333 BOOK I TWO DAYS CHAPTER I THE SCARLET FEATHER I