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The YOUNGER SET
The YOUNGER SET
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I.--HIS OWN PEOPLE 1
II.--A DREAM ENDS 43
III.--UNDER THE ASHES 84
IV.--MID-LENT 119
V.--AFTERGLOW 161
VI.--THE UNEXPECTED 194
VII.--ERRANDS AND LETTERS 242
VIII.--SILVERSIDE 280
IX.--A NOVICE 324
X.--LEX NON SCRIPTA 384
XI.--HIS OWN WAY 420
XII.--HER WAY 460
ARS AMORIS 503
THE YOUNGER SET
* * * * *
CHAPTER I
HIS OWN PEOPLE
"You never met Selwyn, did you?"
"No, sir."
"Never heard anything definite about his trouble?" insisted Gerard.
"Oh, yes, sir!" replied young Erroll, "I've heard a good deal about it.
Everybody has, you know."
"Well, I _don't_ know," retorted Austin Gerard irritably, "what
'everybody' has heard, but I suppose it's the usual garbled version made
up of distorted fact and malicious gossip. That's why I sent for you.
Sit down."
Gerald Erroll seated himself on the edge of the big, polished table in
Austin's private office, one leg swinging, an unlighted cigarette
between his lips.
Austin Gerard, his late guardian, big, florid, with that peculiar blue
eye which seems to characterise hasty temper, stood by the window,
tossing up and catching the glittering gold piece--souvenir of the
directors' meeting which he had just left.
"What has happened," he said, "is this. Captain Selwyn is back in
town--sent up his card to me, but they told him I was attending a
directors' meeting. When the meeting was over I found his card and a
message scribbled, saying he'd recently landed and was going uptown to
call on Nina. She'll keep him there, of course, until I get home, so I
shall see him this evening. Now, before you meet him, I want you to
plainly understand the truth about this unfortunate affair; and that's
why I telephoned your gimlet-eyed friend Neergard just now to let you
come around here for half an hour."
The boy nodded and, drawing a gold matchbox from his waistcoat pocket,
lighted his cigarette.
CHAPTER PAGE
I.--HIS OWN PEOPLE 1
II.--A DREAM ENDS 43
III.--UNDER THE ASHES 84
IV.--MID-LENT 119
V.--AFTERGLOW 161
VI.--THE UNEXPECTED 194
VII.--ERRANDS AND LETTERS 242
VIII.--SILVERSIDE 280
IX.--A NOVICE 324
X.--LEX NON SCRIPTA 384
XI.--HIS OWN WAY 420
XII.--HER WAY 460
ARS AMORIS 503
THE YOUNGER SET
* * * * *
CHAPTER I
HIS OWN PEOPLE
"You never met Selwyn, did you?"
"No, sir."
"Never heard anything definite about his trouble?" insisted Gerard.
"Oh, yes, sir!" replied young Erroll, "I've heard a good deal about it.
Everybody has, you know."
"Well, I _don't_ know," retorted Austin Gerard irritably, "what
'everybody' has heard, but I suppose it's the usual garbled version made
up of distorted fact and malicious gossip. That's why I sent for you.
Sit down."
Gerald Erroll seated himself on the edge of the big, polished table in
Austin's private office, one leg swinging, an unlighted cigarette
between his lips.
Austin Gerard, his late guardian, big, florid, with that peculiar blue
eye which seems to characterise hasty temper, stood by the window,
tossing up and catching the glittering gold piece--souvenir of the
directors' meeting which he had just left.
"What has happened," he said, "is this. Captain Selwyn is back in
town--sent up his card to me, but they told him I was attending a
directors' meeting. When the meeting was over I found his card and a
message scribbled, saying he'd recently landed and was going uptown to
call on Nina. She'll keep him there, of course, until I get home, so I
shall see him this evening. Now, before you meet him, I want you to
plainly understand the truth about this unfortunate affair; and that's
why I telephoned your gimlet-eyed friend Neergard just now to let you
come around here for half an hour."
The boy nodded and, drawing a gold matchbox from his waistcoat pocket,
lighted his cigarette.
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