THE
THE
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SUMMONS
BY
A.E.W. MASON
AUTHOR OF "THE FOUR FEATHERS," "THE TURNSTILE," ETC.
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1920.
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO THOSE
WHO SERVED WITH ME ABROAD
THROUGH THE FOUR YEARS
CONTENTS
chapter
page
I The Olympic Games
11
II An Anthem Intervenes
18
III Mario Escobar
28
IV The Secret of Harry Luttrell
35
V Hillyard's Messenger
47
VI The Honorary Member
55
VII In the Garden of Eden
65
VIII Hillyard Hears News of an Old Friend
70
IX Enter the Heroine in Anything but White Satin
80
X The Summons
91
XI Stella Runs To Earth
100
XII In Barcelona
111
XIII Old Acquaintance
121
XIV "Touching the Matter of Those Ships"
135
XV In a Sleeping-Car
144
XVI Tricks of the Trade
155
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XVII On a Cape of Spain
163
XVIII The Uses of Science
173
XIX Under Grey Skies Again
183
XX Lady Splay's Preoccupations
193
XXI The Magnolia Flowers
208
XXII Jenny Prask
219
XXIII Plans for the Evening
227
XXIV Jenny Prask is Interested
235
XXV In a Library
238
XXVI A Fatal Kindness
248
XXVII The Rank and File
257
XXVIII The Long Sleep
263
XXIX Jenny Puts Up Her Fight
273
XXX A Revolution in Sir Chichester
287
XXXI Jenny and Millie Splay
298
XXXII "But Still a Ruby Kindles in the Vine"
306
THE SUMMONS
CHAPTER I
The Olympic Games
"Lutrell! Lutrell!"
Sir Charles Hardiman stood in the corridor of his steam yacht and bawled the name through a closed door. But
no answer was returned from the other side of the door. He turned the handle and went in. The night was
falling, but the cabin windows looked towards the north and the room was full of light and of a low and
pleasant music. For the tide tinkled and chattered against the ship's planks and, in the gardens of the town
across the harbour, bands were playing. The town was Stockholm in the year nineteen hundred and twelve,
and on this afternoon, the Olympic games, that unfortunate effort to promote goodwill amongst the nations,
which did little but increase rancours and disclose hatreds, had ended, never, it is to be hoped, to be resumed.
"Luttrell," cried Hardiman again, but this time with perplexity in his voice. For Luttrell was there in the cabin
in front of him, but sunk in so deep a contemplation of memories and prospects that the cabin might just as
well have been empty. Sir Charles Hardiman touched him on the shoulder.
"Wake up, old man!"
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