Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber's Notes:

The frontispiece illustration has been removed from text version.

Italics in original are marked with _underscores_.

Small caps have been changed to ALL CAPS.

Punctuation has been regularized.

The following typographical corrections were made:

p. 517, "dumurely" changed to "demurely." (the Nun admitted demurely)
p. 536, "that's he" changed to "that he's." (that he's terribly)
p. 539, "thing" changed to "think," (think you're perfectly)

SECOND STRING

BY ANTHONY HOPE

THOMAS NELSON AND SONS
LONDON, EDINBURGH, DUBLIN,
LEEDS, AND NEW YORK

LEIPZIG: 35-37 Koenigstrasse. PARIS: 61 Rue des Saints Peres.

First Published 1910.

CONTENTS.

I. HOME AGAIN 5

II. A VERY LITTLE HUNTING 27

III. THE POTENT VOICE 45

IV. SETTLED PROGRAMMES 66

V. BROADENING LIFE 87

VI. THE WORLDS OF MERITON 106

VII. ENTERING FOR THE RACE 128

VIII. WONDERFUL WORDS 148

IX. "INTERJECTION" 169

X. FRIENDS IN NEED 190

XI. THE SHAWL BY THE WINDOW 212

XII. CONCERNING A STOLEN KISS 235

XIII. A LOVER LOOKS PALE 256

XIV. SAVING THE NATION 278

XV. LOVE AND FEAR 300

XVI. A CHOICE OF EVILS 321

XVII. REFORMATION 342

XVIII. PENITENCE AND PROBLEMS 362

XIX. MARKED MONEY 384

XX. NO GOOD? 404

XXI. THE EMPTY PLACE 424

XXII. GRUBBING AWAY 446

XXIII. A STOP-GAP 468

XXIV. PRETTY MUCH THE SAME! 490

XXV. THE LAST FIGHT 512

XXVI. TALES OUT OF SCHOOL FOR ONCE 533

XXVII. NOT OF HIS SEEKING 555

SECOND STRING.