CONTENTS.

CHAPTER.PAGE.
I.—Parental Ambitions,[5]
II.—Cleo,[10]
III.—Who Can Analyze a Coquette?[15]
IV.—The Dance on Deck,[20]
V.—Her Gentle Enemy,[24]
VI.—A Veiled Hint,[27]
VII.—Jealousy Without Love,[30]
VIII.—The Man She Did Love,[37]
IX.—Merely a Woman,[43]
X.—Watching the Night,[47]
XI.—At the Journey's End,[52]
XII.—Those Queer Japanese![54]
XIII.—Takashima's Home-Coming,[59]
XIV.—After Eight Years,[60]
XV.—Numè,[64]
XVI.—An American Classic,[68]
XVII.—"Still a Child,"[73]
XVIII.—The Meeting,[76]
XIX.—Confidences,[79]
XX.—Sinclair's Indifference,[83]
XXI.—"Me? I Lig' You,"[86]
XXII.—Advice,[92]
XXIII.—Afraid to Answer,[95]
XXIV.—Visiting the Tea Houses,[99]
XXV.—Shattered Hopes,[104]
XXVI.—Conscience,[108]
XXVII.—Confession,[110]
XXVIII.—Japanese Pride,[115]
XXIX.—Seclusion,[117]
XXX.—Feminine Diplomacy,[121]
XXXI.—A Barbarian Dinner,[124]
XXXII.—The Philosophy of Love,[126]
XXXIII.—What Can that "Luf" Be?[130]
XXXIV.—Conspirators,[133]
XXXV.—A Respite for Sinclair,[136]
XXXVI.—Those Bad Jinrikisha Men,[139]
XXXVII.—Those Good Jinrikisha Men,[141]
XXXVIII.—Disproving a Proverb,[144]
XXXIX.—Love![148]
XL.—A Passionate Declaration,[152]
XLI.—A Hard Subject to Handle,[156]
XLII.—A Story,[160]
XLIII.—The Truth of the Proverb,[163]
XLIV.—Numè Breaks Down,[167]
XLV.—Trying to Forget,[171]
XLVI.—An Observant Husband,[173]
XLVII.—Matsushima Bay,[176]
XLVIII.—A Rejected Lover,[180]
XLIX.—The Answer,[184]
L.—The Ball,[187]
LI.—The Fearful News,[190]
LII.—The Tragedy,[192]
LIII.—A Little Heroine,[194]
LIV.—Sinclair Learns the Truth at Last,[198]
LV.—Lovers Again,[202]
LVI.—The Penalty,[206]
LVII.—The Pity of It All,[211]
LVIII.—Mrs. Davis's Nerves,[214]
LIX.—Cleo and Numè,[217]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

TITLE.PAGE.
Onoto Watanna,[Frontispiece]
Numè-San,[29]
Koto, Kirishima, and Matsu,[101]
Playing Karutta,[117]
"Numè Breaks Down,"[165]
Koto Would Not Marry,[181]
Sitting Together Hand in Hand,[197]
Numè and Her Two Friends Koto and Matsu,[205]