By WENONA GILMAN
HART SERIES NO. 102
Copyright 1895, by George Munro's Sons
Copyright, 1912 by The Arthur Westbrook Co.
Published by
THE ARTHUR WESTBROOK COMPANY,
Cleveland Ohio, U. S. A.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHAPTER XXVII.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
CHAPTER XXIX.
CHAPTER XXX.
CHAPTER XXXI.
CHAPTER XXXII.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
CHAPTER XXXV.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Mrs. de Barryos sat beside a window overlookinga dainty rose-garden, the golden sunshinestreaming over her, the balmly air lifting the softcurls of dark hair that was artistically touchedwith gray. Her hands were folded idly over aletter that lay in her lap—small hands that lookedas if they had never known the meaning of toil,they were pale and thin, like the face of the womanto whom they belonged, for Mrs. de Barryos wasan invalid.
She had been pretty before her face acquiredits present angles through suffering; never