Author of "Truth Dexter," "The Breath of the Gods,"
"Out of the Nest: A Flight of Verses,"
etc.

Illustrated by
Gertrude McDaniel

Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1906

Copyright, 1905,
BY P. F. COLLIER & SON.
Copyright, 1906,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
All rights reserved
Published October, 1906

The story of "The Dragon Painter," in
a shorter form, was originally published in
"Collier's." It has since been practically
rewritten.

TO
KANO YEITAN

CONTENTS

[CHAPTER I] [CHAPTER II] [CHAPTER III] [CHAPTER IV]
[CHAPTER V] [CHAPTER VI] [CHAPTER VII] [CHAPTER VIII]
[CHAPTER IX] [CHAPTER X] [CHAPTER XI]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[ "Another step, and she was in the room" . . . Frontispiece ]