Crossword-Solution: OAKMONT 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

COLLIER & SON COMPANY [Illustration: "GEORGE WATCHED SYLVIA LIFT HER RIDING CROP, HER FACE DISCLOSING A TEMPER TO MATCH HIS OWN"] CONTENTS PART I OAKMONT PART II PRINCETON PART III THE MARKET-PLACE PART IV THE FOREST PART V THE NEW WORLD THE GUARDED HEIGHTS PART I OAKMONT I George Morton never could be certain when he first conceived the preposterous idea that Sylvia Planter ought to belong to him.

Then the failure came, and his close relation with the vast Planter estate of Oakmont, and the arrival of Sylvia, who disclosed such worlds and heralded the revolution.

For a long time he walked in an amicable companionship of broader spaces and more arresting architecture than even Oakmont could boast; and it occurred to him, if he should enter college, he would have as much share in all this as the richest student; at Princeton he would live in the Great House.

All at once a return to Oakmont was, in a sense, forced upon him, but he went without any thought of encountering Sylvia, hoping, indeed, to avoid her.

Had her attitude toward the fat, coarse man conceivably altered because of his gambolling at Oakmont? While he talked business with Mundy, Lambert, and Goodhue, George's mind was distracted by a sense of imponderable loss.