Transcriber’s Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

THE NAIAD
A GHOST STORY

FROM THE FRENCH OF

George Sand

BY

KATHERINE BERRY DI ZÉRÉGA

PRESS OF

WILLIAM R. JENKINS

851 & 853 Sixth Avenue

New York

Copyright, 1892,

by

Katherine Berry di Zéréga.

To the late

Lady Frankland

THIS BOOK IS LOVINGLY INSCRIBED

BY HER

MOTHER

PREFACE.

When years ago the author of this volume read, with delight, the story in the original, she then decided to translate it, in order that others (unfamiliar with the language) might enjoy a similar pleasure; the work of publication, hardly begun, was interrupted by the illness and sudden death of her only daughter, and to one who in so many ways resembled the heroine of this sketch, this book is now dedicated.