Chapter I: Front Matter

SINBAD

Novels by C. KAY SCOTT

BLIND MICE
SINBAD
THE NAPOLEONS (In Preparation)
SIREN (In Preparation)

SINBAD

_A Romance_

BY

C. KAY SCOTT

_“Excellent men have not been wanting (to whose labour and industry
I feel myself much indebted) who have written excellently in great
quantity on the right manner of life, and left to men counsels full of
wisdom: yet no one has determined, as far as I know, the nature and
force of the emotions and what the mind can do in opposition to them
for their restraint.”_

SPINOZA--_Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata, etc._

(_Trans. W. Hall White_)

NEW YORK THOMAS SELTZER 1923

Copyright, 1923, by
THOMAS SELTZER, INC.

_All rights reserved._

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To

E. D. and C. W.,

Wiser than these.

_“Morte perchè m’hai fatta si gran guerra?”_

Canzoni--Giacomino Pugliese

CONTENTS

BOOK I: “LES”

I. MIRAGE

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5

II. EYES A YEAR AFTER

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9

III. THE OCEAN

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7

IV. A POINT OF TIME

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8

BOOK II: HOWARD

I. THE ISLAND IN THE MOON

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5

II. MIRROR MAZE

1 • 2 • 3

III. DILUTING THE NEEDS OF MAN

1 • 2 • 3

IV. THE SLEEPWALKER

1 • 2 • 3

V. THE TAMERS

1 • 2 • 3 • 4

VI. WEBS

1 • 2 • 3

BOOK III: ALGERIA

I. “THE EVERLASTING RETURN”

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6

II. FOOTLIGHTS!

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5

III. CAKE

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6

IV. THE HAPPY ENDING

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5

V. THE FEAR OF LIFE

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5

BOOK IV: “EM”

I. IMAGE

1 • 2 • 3

II. MIST

1 • 2 • 3

III. TIE

1 • 2

IV. “WHAT LITTLE GIRLS ARE MADE OF”

1 • 2

V. LOVE MAY GO ON

1 • 2 • 3 • 4

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

LESTER DRANE, a successful scientist, who trades all for romantic
love.

EMILY TYLER, a gifted girl, who trusts only her womanly intuition.

HOWARD STORY, a modern man, who despises life apart from Art.

ALGERIA WESTOVER, a true Bohemian, a person, no longer young, who
imitates herself.

GENEVIEVE STRANG, a “new woman,” a girl with the code of a gentleman.

OTHER PERSONS AND CREATURES, Bankers, People, Writers, Friends,
Radicals, Janitresses, Painters, Zoölogists, Waiters, Poets, Fakirs,
Prostitutes, Children, Critics, Marionettes, Enemies, Artists,
Ghosts, Etc.

SCENE: _The Metropolitan City of New York._

TIME: _Late Autumn, Winter, Early Spring, three years after the Great
War._