To My Brother
MAJOR ARTHUR HAGGARD.
... "Pearl's was a perfect Japanese garden: itwas a garden of the past, a poem, a creation of an artwhose charm and loveliness only a Japanese canproduce."
--Page 28.
CONTENTS.
Page.
Chapter I.--Renunciation 1
Chapter II.--In Lotus Land 25
Chapter III.--Pains and Penalties 56
Chapter IV.--Deep Waters 75
Chapter V.--Home News 91
Chapter VI.--A Woman's Womanliness 118
Chapter VII.--Tried as by Fire 146
Chapter VIII.--Amy to the Rescue 159
Chapter IX.--On the Verge of the Unknown 176
Chapter X.--In the Shadow of a Tomb 198
Chapter XI.--The Price of a Kiss 222
Chapter XII.--Danger Signals 244
Chapter XIII.--Hidden Fires 265
Chapter XIV.--A Bird of Ill Omen 280
Chapter XV.--'Twixt Scylla and Charybdis 298
Chapter XVI.--"It is best so, Amy, Dear" 315
CHAPTER I.
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