Chapter I: Introduction: vii

THE LIE _Mary Antin_ 1

BLUE REEFERS _Elizabeth Ashe_ 29

THE DEBT _Kathleen Carman_ 40

SETH MILES AND THE SACRED FIRE _Cornelia A. P. Comer_ 50

BURIED TREASURE _Mazo De La Roche_ 69

THE PRINCESS OF MAKE-BELIEVE _Annie Hamilton Donnell_ 94

THE TWO APPLES _James Edmund Dunning_ 100

THE PURPLE STAR _Rebecca Hooper Eastman_ 105

RUGGS--R.O.T.C. _William Addleman Ganoe_ 125

THE WAY OF LIFE _Lucy Huffaker_ 145

A YEAR IN A COAL-MINE _Joseph Husband_ 159

WOMAN’S SPHERE _S. H. Kemper_ 181

BABANCHIK _Christina Krysto_ 190

ROSITA _Ellen Mackubin_ 207

PERJURED _Edith Ronald Mirrielees_ 222

WHAT MR. GREY SAID _Margaret Prescott Montague_ 237

A SOLDIER OF THE LEGION _E. Morlae_ 249

THE BOULEVARD OF ROGUES _Meredith Nicholson_ 274

WHAT HAPPENED TO ALANNA _Kathleen Norris_ 282

SPENDTHRIFTS _Laura Spencer Portor_ 298

CHILDREN WANTED _Lucy Pratt_ 323

THE SQUIRE _Elsie Singmaster_ 339

GREGORY AND THE SCUTTLE _Charles Haskins Townsend_ 350

IN NOVEMBER _Edith Wyatt_ 357

BIOGRAPHICAL AND INTERPRETATIVE NOTES 369