LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

["The coachman's wife hid her face in her apron, and cried bitterly"]Frontispiece.
["'Sit down, Salome,' and Dr. Wilton drew her toward him on the bench"]33
["'I say, Salome, have you got any money?'"]80
["'It's a bird, I think.—Puck, put it down!'"]113
["A tall figure advanced towards her"]176
["'Salome, I have lost the necklet set with emeralds'"]208
["'Raymond,' whispered Salome, 'I wanted to tell you how much I love you'"]230

SALOME.

CHAPTER I.

THE HOME AND THE CHILDREN.

MAPLESTONE COURT was a pretty, spacious, and comfortable English home. The house was built of old red brick, which took a deep, rich colour in the rays of the western sun as it shone upon the wide porch and the many windows. Before the house there was a wide expanse of emerald turf, skirted by stately trees; and this lawn was not cut up into flower-beds, but rolled and shaven close, so that the dark shadows of the trees lay upon it in unbroken masses morning and evening.