Chapter I: Front Matter

=By Ian Hay=

A KNIGHT ON WHEELS.

HAPPY-GO-LUCKY. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock.

A SAFETY MATCH. With frontispiece.

A MAN'S MAN. With frontispiece.

THE RIGHT STUFF. With frontispiece.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK

A KNIGHT ON WHEELS

A
KNIGHT ON WHEELS

BY
IAN HAY

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
=The Riverside Press Cambridge=
1914

COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY IAN HAY BEITH

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published September 1914_

TO
H. M. S.

CONTENTS

BOOK ONE

THE MISOGYNISTS

I. ENVIRONMENT 3

II. LE PREMIER PAS 19

III. SAMSON AND DELILAH 31

IV. HEREDITY 46

V. MISTAKEN IDENTITY 59

VI. RENOVARE DOLOREM 66

VII. THE INCONSISTENCY OF UNCLE JOSEPH 78

VIII. THE HAMPSTEAD HEATH CONSPIRACY 90

IX. GENUS IRRITABILE 100

X. THE ECCENTRIC GENTLEMAN 109

XI. RED GABLES 129

XII. THE OFFICIAL DEMISE OF TOMMY SMITH 133

BOOK TWO

_LABOR OMNIA VINCIT_

XIII. THE GOLDEN AGE 141

XIV. THE IRON AGE 174

XV. OMEGA, CERTAINLY NOT 182

XVI. THINGS 194

XVII. PEOPLE 203

XVIII. MY SON TIMOTHY 216

XIX. PLAIN MEN AND FAIR WOMEN 225

XX. THE PROVING OF THE BRAKE 248

BOOK THREE

_OMNIA VINCIT_

XXI. THE BIG THING 263

XXII. THE INARTICULATE KNIGHT 272

XXIII. MAINLY COMMERCIAL 283

XXIV. LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI 294

XXV. CONFESSIONAL--MASCULINE AND FEMININE 305

XXVI. THE RIVALS 318

XXVII. SECOND BEST 329

XXVIII. A BRAND FROM THE BURNING 348

XXIX. THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THEOPHILUS 373

XXX. THE SILENT KNIGHT 386

XXXI. THE ELEVENTH HOUR 398

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