Paradise Garden: The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment

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Gibbs George. Paradise Garden: The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment

CHAPTER I. THE GREAT EXPERIMENT

CHAPTER II. JERRY

CHAPTER III. JERRY GROWS

CHAPTER IV. ENTER EVE

CHAPTER V. THE MINX RETURNS

CHAPTER VI. THE CABIN

CHAPTER VII. JACK BALLARD TAKES CHARGE

CHAPTER VIII. JERRY EMERGES

CHAPTER IX. FOOT-WORK

CHAPTER X. MARCIA

CHAPTER XI. THE SIREN

CHAPTER XII. INTRODUCING JIM ROBINSON

CHAPTER XIII. UNA

CHAPTER XIV. JERRY GOES INTO TRAINING

CHAPTER XV. THE UNKNOWN UNMASKED

CHAPTER XVI. THE FIGHT

CHAPTER XVII. MARCIA RECANTS

CHAPTER XVIII. TWO EMBASSIES

CHAPTER XIX. THE PATH IN THE WOOD

CHAPTER XX. REVOLT

CHAPTER XXI. JERRY ASKS QUESTIONS

CHAPTER XXII. THE CHIPMUNK

CHAPTER XXIII. THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY

CHAPTER XXIV. FEET OF CLAY

CHAPTER XXV. THE MYSTERY DEEPENS

CHAPTER XXVI. DRYAD AND SATYR

CHAPTER XXVII. REVELATIONS

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"'Love!' he sneered … 'I thought you'd say that.'"

It is said that Solomon and Job have best spoken of the misery of man, the former the most fortunate, the latter the most unfortunate of creatures. And yet it seems strange to me that John Benham, the millionaire, Jerry's father, cynic and misogynist, and Roger Canby, bookworm and pauper, should each have arrived, through different mental processes, at the same ideal and philosophy of life. We both disliked women, not only disliked but feared and distrusted them, seeing in the changed social order a menace to the peace of the State and the home. The difference between us was merely one of condition; for while I kept my philosophy secret, being by nature reticent and unassertive, John Benham had both the means and the courage to put his idealism into practice.

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But there was another problem that our conversation had suggested: the choice of a vocation. The proposition of the misguided Flynn had made me aware of the fact that I was already letting my charge drift toward the maws of the great unknown which began just beyond the Wall without a plan of life save that he should be a "gentleman." It occurred to me with alarming suddenness that the term "gentleman" was that frequently applied to persons who had no occupation or visible means of support. Nowhere in John Benham's instructions was there mention of any plan for a vocation. Obviously if the old man had intended Jerry for a business career he would have said so, and the omission of any exact instructions convinced me that such an idea was furthest from John Benham's thoughts. It remained for me to decide the matter in the best way that I could, for determined I was that Jerry, merely because of the possession of much worldly goods, should not be that bane of humanity and of nations, an idler.

At about this period Mr. Ballard the elder came down to Horsham Manor on one of his visits of inspection and inquiry. He brought up the subject of his own accord.

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