TOMMY AND GRIZEL BY J. M. BARRIE ILLUSTRATED BY BERNARD PARTRIDGE 1900, 1912 CONTENTS PART I CHAPTER I HOW TOMMY FOUND A WAY II THE SEARCH FOR THE TREASURE III SANDYS ON WOMAN IV GRIZEL OF THE CROOKED SMILE V THE TOMMY MYTH VI GHOSTS THAT HAUNT THE DEN VII THE BEGINNING OF THE DUEL VIII WHAT GRIZEL'S EYES SAID IX GALLANT BEHAVIOUR OF T. SANDYS X GAVINIA ON THE TRACK XI THE TEA-PARTY XII IN WHICH A COMEDIAN CHALLENGES TRAGEDY TO BOWLS XIII LITTLE WELLS OF GLADNESS XIV ELSPETH XV BY PROSEN WATER XVI "HOW COULD YOU HURT YOUR GRIZEL SO!" XVII HOW TOMMY SAVED THE FLAG PART II CHAPTER XVIII THE GIRL SHE HAD BEEN XIX OF THE CHANGE IN THOMAS XX A LOVE-LETTER XXI THE ATTEMPT TO CARRY ELSPETH BY NUMBERS XXII GRIZEL'S GLORIOUS HOUR XXIII TOMMY LOSES GRIZEL XXIV THE MONSTER XXV MR. T. SANDYS HAS RETURNED TO TOWN XXVI GRIZEL ALL ALONE XXVII GRIZEL'S JOURNEY XXVIII TWO OF THEM XXIX THE RED LIGHT XXX THE LITTLE GODS DESERT HIM XXXI "THE MAN WITH THE GREETIN' EYES" XXXII TOMMY'S BEST WORK XXXIII THE LITTLE GODS RETURN WITH A LADY XXXIV A WAY IS FOUND FOR TOMMY XXXV THE PERFECT LOVER ILLUSTRATIONS PART I And clung to it, his teeth set. "She is standing behind that tree looking at us." She did not look up, she waited. PART II "I sit still by his arm-chair and tell him what is happening to his Grizel." They told Aaron something. "But my friends still call me Mrs. Jerry," she said softly. "I woke up," she said He heard their seductive voices, they danced around him in numbers. TOMMY AND GRIZEL PART I CHAPTER I HOW TOMMY FOUND A WAY O.P. Pym, the colossal Pym, that vast and rolling figure, who never knew what he was to write about until he dipped grandly, an author in such demand that on the foggy evening which starts our story his publishers have had his boots removed lest he slip thoughtlessly round the corner before his work is done, as was the great man's way--shall we begin with him, or with Tommy, who has just arrived in London, carrying his little box and leading a lady by the hand? It was Pym, as we are about to see, who in the beginning held Tommy up to the public gaze, Pym who first noticed his remarkable indifference to female society, Pym who gave him----But alack! does no one remember Pym for himself? Is the king of the _Penny Number_ already no more than a button that once upon a time kept Tommy's person together? And we are at the night when they first met! Let us hasten into Marylebone before little Tommy arrives and Pym is swallowed like an oyster.