THE

Seven Streams

BY

WARWICK DEEPING

Author of “The Rust of Rome,” “The Red Saint,”

“Uther and Igraine,” etc. etc.

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED

London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne

MCMXI


ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


TO

My Dear Sister

KATHLEEN

This Dream Romance is Dedicated


“Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,

Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.”

Spenser, The Faerie Queen.

“Dreams;

Which are the children of an idle brain

Begot of nothing but vain phantasy.”

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.


THE SEVEN STREAMS