



Produced by David Widger





THE FORSYTE SAGA--VOLUME II

By John Galsworthy



Contents:     Indian Summer of a Forsyte
              In Chancery


TO ANDRE CHEVRILLON




INDIAN SUMMER OF A FORSYTE


      "And Summer's lease hath all
                too short a date."
       --Shakespeare




I

In the last day of May in the early 'nineties, about six o'clock of the
evening, old Jolyon Forsyte sat under the oak tree below the terrace
of his house at Robin Hill. He was waiting for the midges to bite him,
before abandoning the glory of the afternoon. His thin brown hand,
where blue veins stood out, held the end of a cigar in its tapering,
long-nailed fingers--a pointed polished nail had survived with