Tanya laid her fingers across his lips.
"Is not our own fairy story more beautiful than this?"
He kissed her fingers and then, since her lips were near, took them too, for fairy tales, beautiful as they may be, are after all, mere creatures of dreams. And Tanya's lips were very real....
THE END
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By George Gibbs
The Golden Bough
The Secret Witness
Paradise Garden
The Yellow Dove
The Flaming Sword
Madcap
The Silent Battle
The Maker of Opportunities
The Forbidden Way
The Bolted Door
Tony's Wife
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Publishers New York
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