The Stories
Concha Argüello, Sister Dominica
by Gertrude Atherton
The Ford of Crèvecœur
by Mary Austin
A Californian
by Geraldine Bonner
Gideon’s Knock
by Mary Halleck Foote
A Yellow Man and a White
by Eleanor Gates
The Judgment of Man
by James Hopper
The League of the Old Men
by Jack London
Down the Flume with the Sneath Piano
by Bailey Millard
The Contumacy of Sarah L. Walker
by Miriam Michelson
Breaking Through
by W. C. Morrow
A Lost Story
by Frank Norris
Hantu
by Henry Milner Rideout
Miss. Juno
by Charles Warren Stoddard
A Little Savage Gentleman
by Isobel Strong
Love and Advertising
by Richard Walton Tully
The Tewana
by Herman Whitaker
The Illustrations
“The devil sit in Filon’s eyes and laugh—laugh—some time he go away like a man at a window, but he come again. M’siu, he live there!”
from a painting by E. Almond Withrow
“She was always very sweet, our Concha,
but there never was a time when you could take a liberty with her.”
from a painting by Lillie V. O’Ryan
“The petal of a plum blossom.”
from a painting by Albertine Randall Wheelan
“Not twenty feet from me Miller sat upright in his canoe as if petrified.”
from a painting by Merle Johnson
“All their ways lead to death.”
from a painting by Maynard Dixon
“Dawn was flooding the east, and still the boy lurched and floundered on and on.”
from a painting by Gordon Ross