Chapter I: Front Matter

ROLAND WHATELY

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS
ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
TORONTO

ROLAND WHATELY

_A Novel_

BY

ALEC WAUGH
AUTHOR OF “THE LOOM OF YOUTH”

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1922

_All Rights Reserved_

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

COPYRIGHT, 1922,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and printed. Published September, 1922.

Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.

TO MY FRIEND
CLIFFORD BAX

CONTENTS

PART I.--THE OPENING ROUND

CHAPTER PAGE

I. TWO HAPHAZARDS 3

II. THE OUTCOME 14

III. RALPH AND APRIL 23

IV. A KISS 35

V. A POTENTIAL DIPLOMAT 44

VI. APRIL’S LOOKING-GLASS 59

VII. A SORRY BUSINESS 67

PART II.--THE RIVAL FORCES

VIII. A FORTUNATE MEETING 99

IX. HOGSTEAD 112

X. YOUNG LOVE 127

XI. THE ROMANCE OF VARNISH 151

XII. MARSTON AND MARSTON 167

XIII. LILITH OF OLD 175

XIV. THE TWO CURRENTS 196

PART III.--THE FIRST ENCOUNTERS

XV. SUCCESS 209

XVI. LILITH AND MURIEL 244

PART IV.--ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

XVII. THREE YEARS 253

XVIII. THREE DAYS 261

XIX. THE LONELY UNICORN 285

XX. THERE’S ROSEMARY 304

XXI. THE SHEDDING OF THE CHRYSALIS 312

XXII. AN END AND A BEGINNING 331