The Associate Hermits

``The Great Stone of Sardis'' is as queer and preposterous as can be imagined, yet as plausible and real-seeming as a legal document.... There is a treat in the book.—Independent, N. Y.

A new and worthy example of Stockton's kindly, wholesome, original, and inexhaustible humor.—Syracuse Post.

Narrated with a seriousness that gives the adventures a semblance of matters of fact. Through the narrative runs a love interest which Mr. Stockton manages with great skill.—Washington Post.

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NEW YORK AND LONDON:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	The Dawn of a Wedding-journey	1
II.	Enter Margery	7
III.	Sadler’s	15
IV.	A Cataract of Information	23
V.	Camp Rob	35
VI.	Camp Roy	42
VII.	A Stranger	52
VIII.	The Bishop’s Tale	63
IX.	Matlack’s Three Troubles	74
X.	A Ladies’ Day in Camp	82
XI.	Margery Takes the Oars	90
XII.	The Bishop Engages the Attention of the Guides	100
XIII.	The World Goes Wrong with Mr. Raybold	105
XIV.	The Assertion of Individuality	113
XV.	A Net of Cobwebs to Cage a Lion	123
XVI.	A Man who Feels Himself a Man	135
XVII.	Mrs. Perkenpine Asserts Her Individuality	143
XVIII.	The Hermits Associate	153
XIX.	Margery’s Breakfast	161
XX.	Martin Asserts His Individuality	173
XXI.	The Individuality of Peter Sadler	185
XXII.	A Tranquillizing Breeze and a Hot Wind	194
XXIII.	Mrs. Perkenpine Finds out Things about Herself	205
XXIV.	A Dissolving Audience	212
XXV.	A Moonlight Interview	220
XXVI.	An Elopement	229
XXVII.	Mrs. Perkenpine Delights the Bishop	239
XXVIII.	The Hermits Continue to Favor Association	248

ILLUSTRATIONS

	PAGE
THE SUPPER	Frontispiece
“‘CAN THIS BE SADLER’S?’”	16
“‘THEY THROW THE OTHER THINGS BACK’”	54
“A LESSON IN FLY-FISHING”	80
“BUT THE BISHOP KNEW BETTER”	98
“WITH A GREAT HEAVE SENT HIM OUT INTO THE WATER”	102
“‘WHERE ARE ALL OUR FRIENDS?’”	150
“‘HAVEN’T TRIED IT’”	202
“‘IF THEY AIN’T THE CAMP ROBBERS!’”	232

THE ASSOCIATE HERMITS

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