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INTRODUCTION. By the Editor xiii
THE GIFT. By Sandra Alexander 1
(From _The Reviewer_)
THE RETURN. By Sherwood Anderson 21
(From _The Century Magazine_)
GERTRUDE DONOVAN. By Nathan Asch 39
(From _The Transatlantic Review_)
GUARD OF HONOR. By Barry Benefield 53
(From _The Pictorial Review_)
THE BEGGAR OF ALCAZAR. By Konrad Bercovici 64
(From _The Century Magazine_)
THE LAUGH. By Bella Cohen 81
(From _The Calendar of Modern Letters_)
THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY. By Charles Caldwell
Dobie 85
(From _Harper’s Magazine_)
THE CITY OF REFUGE. By Rudolph Fisher 105
(From _The Atlantic Monthly_)
AN ARMY WITH BANNERS. By Katharine Fullerton
Gerould 122
(From _Harper’s Magazine_)
COWARD’S CASTLE. By Walter Gilkyson 148
(From _The Atlantic Monthly_)
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE FREE? By Manuel Komroff 167
(From _The Atlantic Monthly_)
HAIRCUT. By Ring Lardner 174
(From _Liberty_)
THE ILL WIND. By Robert Robinson 186
(From _Collier’s Weekly_)
THE OLD LADY. By Evelyn Scott 195
(From _The Dial_)
OLD MAN LEDGE. By May Stanley 207
(From _The Pictorial Review_)
SIX DOLLARS. By Wilbur Daniel Steele 228
(From _The Pictorial Review_)
THE HOME TOWN. By Milton Waldman 253
(From _The London Mercury_)
FIRE AND WATER. By Glenway Wescott 270
(From _Collier’s Weekly_)
THE DEVIL DRUM. By Barrett Willoughby 287
(From _The Century Magazine_)
GIDEON’S REVENGE. By Elinor Wylie 311
(From _The Century Magazine_)
THE YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY,
OCTOBER, 1924, TO SEPTEMBER, 1925 323