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I. The Gentleman Is Cold

II. The Departure of Emma Inch

III. There’s an Owl in My Room

IV. The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery

V. Casuals of the Keys

VI. A Preface to Dogs

VII. Guessing Game

VIII. Everything Is Wild

IX. The State of Bontana

X. Mr. Pendly and the Poindexter

XI. The Indian Sign

XII. The Private Life of Mr. Bidwell

XIII. The Curb in the Sky

XIV. Mr. Preble Gets Rid of His Wife

XV. A Portrait of Aunt Ida

XVI. The Luck of Jad Peters

XVII. I Went to Sullivant

XVIII. The Civil War Phone-Number Association

XIX. Back to the Grades

XX. Hell Only Breaks Loose Once

(Written After Reading James M. Cain’s “ The Postman Always Rings Twice ”)

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XXI. The Man Who Was Wetly

(After Reading an Anthology of British Short Stories)

XXII. If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox

XXIII. One More April

(An Effort to Start Another Novel about the Galsworthy Characters, Taking Them Up Where He Left Off)

XXIV. How to See a Bad Play

XXV. How to Listen to a Play

XXVI. The Funniest Man You Ever Saw

XXVII. The Black Magic of Barney Haller

XXVIII. The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl

XXIX. Something to Say

XXX. Snapshot of a Dog

XXXI. The Evening’s at Seven

XXXII. Smashup

XXXIII. The Man on the Train

XXXIV. The Greatest Man in the World

XXXV. One Is a Wanderer

XXXVI. A Box to Hide In