Chapter I: Front Matter

The Young Enchanted

_A ROMANTIC STORY_

by HUGH WALPOLE

GROSSET & DUNLAP _Publishers_

_by arrangement with_ Doubleday-Doran & Company, Inc.

COPYRIGHT, 1921,

BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO MY FRIEND

LAURITZ MELCHIOR

AND, THROUGH HIM,

TO ALL MY FRIENDS

IN DENMARK

THIS BOOK

IS DEDICATED

MOTTO

"This minute that comes
to me over the past
Decillions.
There is no better than it
And now. What behaves well
In the past or behaves well
To-day is not such a wonder.
The wonder is always and
Always how there can be
A mean man or an infidel."

WALT WHITMAN.

CONTENTS

BOOK I: TWO DAYS

CHAPTER PAGE

I THE SCARLET FEATHER 13

II HENRY HIMSELF 28

III MILLIE 49

IV HENRY'S FIRST DAY 64

V THE THREE FRIENDS 74

BOOK II: HIGH SUMMER

I SECOND PHASE OF THE ADVENTURE 83

II MILLIE AND PETER 97

III THE LETTERS 113

IV THE CAULDRON 129

V MILLIE IN LOVE 138

VI HENRY AT DUNCOMBE 156

VII AND PETER IN LONDON 163

BOOK III: FIRST BRUSH WITH THE ENEMY

I ROMANCE AND CLADGATE 175

II LIFE, DEATH AND FRIENDSHIP 195

III HENRY IN LOVE 212

IV DEATH OF MRS. TRENCHARD 222

V NOTHING IS PERFECT 229

VI THE RETURN 236

VII DUNCOMBE SAYS GOOD-BYE 247

VIII HERE COURAGE IS NEEDED 259

IX QUICK GROWTH 268

BOOK IV: KNIGHT ERRANT

I MRS. TENSSEN'S MIND IS MADE UP AT LAST 281

II HENRY MEETS MRS. WESTCOTT 286

III A DEATH AND A BATTLE 292

IV MILLIE RECOVERS HER BREATH 302

V AND FINDS SOMEONE WORSE OFF THAN HERSELF 309

VI CLARE GOES 317

VII THE RESCUE 320

VIII THE MOMENT 324

IX THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR 328

X THE BEGINNING 333