Making Fate (Classic Reprint)

MAKING FATE. CHAPTER L "WAITING. Mrs. Edmonds had tided everv chair in the room, from the straight-backed uncompromising one nearest to the dining-room to the wide-armed " Sleepy Hollow " in the alcove, but none of them filled her restless mood. Twice she had resolutely settled herself on the wide, old-fashioned, pillowy lounge, arranged the pillows at head and back with infinite pains, drawn the bright-colored afghan over Jicr and resolved to rest; only to spring up again in five minutes and renew her walk up and down the room, broken only by a pause to peer out first at the western and then at the southern windo . It was a pleasant enough prospect outside. The rain had. been falling in torrents, and the little river which it had made still gurgled down the gutters, glistening in the brilliant moonlight. The street was quite still. During tho hours which Mrs. Edmonds had waited there had been the sound of many feet; and the sound had

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAPTER I pagk; "Waiting I; CHAPTER II; A Victim 12; CHAPTER 111, An Opportune 24; CHAPTER IV Perplexities and Decisions• 36; CHAPTER V; Shado ws and " Cli arms ''- 47; CHAPTER VI Honie-Comings 59; CHAPTER VII "What Next?" 71; CHAPTER VIII " The Young Man has Coinc " 82; CHAPTER IX "Poor Ralph" 94; CHAPTER X; A Marked Day 10G; CIIAFTER XI Reaping Thorns 120; CHAPTER XII; A Young Man of Moods 130; CHAPTER XIII Living Below One's Privileges 147; CHAPTER XIV A Look Backward and Forward 100; COX TEXTS; CHAPTER XV; FAGS; A Surprising Decision 173; CHAPTER XVI As Others Sea Us_____ 188; CHAPTER XVH The " Best Thing"202; CHAPTER XVIII "Isn't it Fun" 216; CHAPTER XIX; 4< You Pray M 220; CHAPTER XX Questions Needing Answers 244; CHAPTER XXI " Give me what I Need " 258; CHAPTER XXII; An Evening of Decisions 272; CHAPTER XXIII, Principles and Professions" 287;