CONTENTS
WILD YOUTH
CHAPTER I. THE MAZARINES TAKE POSSESSION
CHAPTER II. "MY NAME IS LOUISE”
CHAPTER III. "I HAVE FOUGHT WITH BEASTS AT EPHESUS”
CHAPTER IV. TWO SIDES TO A BARGAIN
CHAPTER V. ORLANDO HAS AN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER VI. "THINGS MUST HAPPEN”
CHAPTER VII. "THE ZOOLYOGICAL GARDEN”
CHAPTER VIII. THE ORIENTAL WAY OF IT
CHAPTER IX. THE STARS IN THEIR COURSES
CHAPTER X. THE MOON WAS NOT ALONE
CHAPTER XI. LOUISE
CHAPTER XII. MAN UNNATURAL
CHAPTER XIII. ORLANDO GIVES A WARNING
CHAPTER XIV. FILION AND FIONA—ALSO PATSY KERNAGHAN
CHAPTER XV. OUTWARD BOUND
CHAPTER XVI. THE CROSS TRAILS
CHAPTER XVII. THE SUPERIOR MAN
CHAPTER XVIII. YOUTH HAS ITS WAY
From the beginning, Askatoon had had more character and idiosyncrasy than any other town in the West. Perhaps that was because many of its citizens had marked personality, while some were distinctly original—a few so original as to be almost bizarre. The general intelligence was high, and this made the place alert for the new observer. It slept with one eye open; it waked with both eyes wide—as wide as the windows of the world. The virtue of being bright and clever was a doctrine which had never been taught in Askatoon; it was as natural as eating and drinking. Nothing ever really shook the place out of a wholesome control and composure. Now and then, however, the flag of distress was hoisted, and everybody in the place—from Patsy Kernaghan, the casual, at one end of the scale, and the Young Doctor, so called because he was young-looking when he first came to the place, who represented Askatoon in the meridian of its intellect, at the other—had sudden paralysis. That was the outstanding feature of Askatoon. Some places made a noise and flung things about in times of distress; but Askatoon always stood still and fumbled with its collar-buttons, as though to get more air. When it was poignantly moved, it leaned against the wall of its common sense, abashed, but vigilant and careful.
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