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THE GOLDEN ROAD
There is night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun,moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewisea wind on the heath.
—George Borrow.
"Good-night, dear Jean François," said she with gaiety.
"May your dreams be of your beloved roads of Picardy."She threw him an elfish kiss from her finger-tips andhastened into her airy improvised bedroom.
THE GOLDEN ROAD
BY
FRANK WALLER ALLEN
AUTHOR OF "BACK TO ARCADY"
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS
BY
GEORGE HOOD
NEW YORK
WESSELS & BISSELL CO.
1910
Copyright, 1910, by
Wessels & Bissell Co.
October
ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL
All rights reserved
PREMIER PRESS
NEW YORK
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I The Happy Pedler Comes to Town 3
II The Jade and the Inquisition 13
III Jean François' Vast Possessions 23
IV The Misadventure of a Circus 35
V Timid Conquest Comes to Town 48
VI The Jade, a Nonentity, becomes the Illustrious Nance 57
VII A Pedler's Pack of Dreams 68
VIII Monsieur l'Abbé Picot of the Brave, Outlandish Heart 74
IX The Child is Father to the Man 86
X On the Morning Road 97
XI The Satisfactory Explanation of Nance 107
XII A Hebe of the Highway 117
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