BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
BEST LAID SCHEMES
BEST LAID SCHEMES
BY
MEREDITH NICHOLSON
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1922
Copyright, 1919, 1922, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Copyright, 1912, 1913, 1914 by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING CO.
Copyright, 1916 by P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY
Copyright, 1921 by THE McCLURE PUBLICATIONS Inc.
Printed in the United States of America
Published April, 1922
TO
WILL H. HAYS
WHOSE FRIENDSHIP IS MORE TO BE PRIZED
THAN MUCH FINE GOLD
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Susiness of Susan | 3 |
| The Girl with the Red Feather | 34 |
| The Campbells are Coming | 74 |
| Arabella’s House Party | 115 |
| The Third Man | 167 |
| Wrong Number | 197 |
BEST LAID SCHEMES
THE SUSINESS OF SUSAN
I
Susan Parker was twenty-six and nothing had everhappened. To speak more accurately, plenty of thingshad happened, but Man had never happened. As acollege girl and afterward, Susie had, to be sure, knownmany men; but they had all passed by on the otherside. A young man of literary ambitions had oncedirected a sonnet at Sus