The Peacock Feather: A Romance

A ROMANCE
LESLIE MOORE
AUTHOR OF “AUNT OLIVE IN BOHEMIA” AND “THE NOTCH IN THE STICK”
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1914
Copyright, 1914 BY ALSTON RIVERS, Ltd.
Second Printing
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
To MRS. G. HERBERT THRING WITH THE AUTHOR’S LOVE AND GRATITUDE September 30, 1913
CONTENTS
The Peacock Feather
It was sunset.
The sea, which all day long had lain blue and sparkling, was changing slowly to a warm grey shot with moving purple and gold. The sky flamed with crimson and amber. But gradually the vivid warmth sank and faded; day slowly withdrew into the soft embrace of night, and a blue-grey mantle covered sea and sky and land. One by one the stars shone forth till overhead the mantle was thickly powdered with their twinkling eyes.