Copyright, 1893
by
Joseph Knight Company

ILLVSTRATIONS

PAGE
“You Painted This, M. René Claude?”[ Frontispiece.]
“A Young Girl had Found and Rescued Me”[ 7]
“In a very Narrow Street”[ 13]
“He was a Painter”[ 22]
“One Night ... Lili Came to my Side by the Open Lattice”[ 28]
“She Fell on her Knees before it”[ 39]
Tailpiece, Part I.[ 42]
Headpiece, Part II.[ 43]
Tailpiece, Part II.[ 75]

A PROVENCE ROSE.


PART FIRST.


I was a Provence rose.

A little slender rose, with leaves of shining green and blossoms of purest white,—a little fragile thing, but fair, they said, growing in the casement in a chamber in a street.