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THE DUST FLOWER
Books By
BASIL KING
The Dust Flower
The Empty Sack
Going West
The City of Comrades
Abraham’s Bosom
The Lifted Veil
The Side of the Angels
The Letter of the Contract
The Way Home
The Wild Olive
The Inner Shrine
The Street Called Straight
Let No Man Put Asunder
In the Garden of Charity
The Steps of Honor
The High Heart
HARPER & BROTHERS
Established 1817

THEN SLOWLY, SLOWLY LETTY SANK ON HER KNEES, BOWING HER HEAD ON THE HANDS WHICH DREW HER CLOSER. [[See p. 350]]

The
DUST FLOWER
By BASIL KING
Author of
“THE EMPTY SACK” “THE INNER SHRINE” ETC.
With Illustrations by
HIBBARD V. B. KLINE Publishers
Harper & Brothers
New York and London
MCMXXII
The
DUST FLOWER
By BASIL KING
Author of
“THE EMPTY SACK” “THE INNER SHRINE” ETC.
With Illustrations by
HIBBARD V. B. KLINE
Publishers
Harper & Brothers
New York and London
MCMXXII
THE DUST FLOWER
Copyright, 1922
Harper & Brothers
Printed in the U. S. A.
First Edition
H-W

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
Then Slowly, Slowly Letty Sank on Her Knees, Bowing Her head on the Hands Which Drew Her Closer[Frontispiece]
By the Time He Had Finished, His Heart Was a Little Eased and Some of Her Tenderness Began to Flow Toward Him[Facing page 68]
The Prince’s First Words Were Also a Distraction from Terrors, and Enchantments Which Made Her Feel Faint[Facing page 230]
“But By and By I Creeps Out and Down the Steps, and There ’E was, All ’Uddled Every Wye”[Facing page 328]