LIFE AT HIGH TIDE Harper's Novelettes Edited By William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden CONTENTS: THE IMMEDIATE JEWEL ........ MARGARET DELAND "AND ANGELS CAME ........... ANNE O'HAGAN KEEPERS OF A CHARGE ........ GRACE ELLERY CHANNING A WORKING BASIS ............ ABBY MEGUIRE ROACH THE GLASS DOOR ............. MARY TRACY EARLE ELIZABETH AND DAVIE ........ MURIEL CAMPBELL DYAR BARNEY DOON, BRAGGART ...... PHILIP VERRILL MIGHELS THE REPARATION ............. EMERY POTTLE THE YEARLY TRIBUTE ......... ROSINA HUBLEY EMMET A MATTER OF RIVALRY ........ OCTAVE THANET PREFACE There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Thus the poet--and poetry, of the old order at least, always waiting upon great events, has found in the high-tide flotations of masterful heroes to fortune themes most flatteringly responsive to its own high tension. The writer of fiction has no such afflatus, no such high pitch of life, as to outward circumstance, in his representation of it, as