HAROLD MACGRATH

Author of The Puppet Crown, The Grey Cloak, The Man on the Box

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
HARRISON FISHER

New York
GROSSET & DUNLAP
Publishers

COPYRIGHT 1905
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

TO MY WIFE

CONTENTS

[Chapter I ][Chapter IV ][Chapter VII ]
[Chapter II ][Chapter V ][Chapter VIII ]
[Chapter III ][Chapter VI ][Chapter IX ]

List of Illustrations

[ Five people dressed for costume ball, four sitting,
one standing ……… Frontispiece ]

[ The handsomest girl I had set eyes upon in a month of moons. ]

[ "This is what I want. How much?" I inquired. ]

[ Turning, I beheld an exquisite Columbine. ]

[ I led her over to a secluded nook. We sat down. ]

[ And there we sat, calmly munching the apples. ]

[ "Madame, will you do me the honor to raise your mask?" ]

[ We watched the girl as she bathed and bandaged the wounded arm. ]

[ With a contented sigh she rested her blue-slippered feet on the brass fender. ]