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"Should the day ever arrive may I be there to paint the real woman."


DEVOTA  J'y suis, j'y reste  BY AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON Author of St. Elmo, At the Mercy of Tiberius, A Speckled Bird, etc.  ILLUSTRATIONS BY STUART TRAVIS  (Illustration)  NEW YORK G. W. DILLINGHAM CO.

Copyright, 1907, by

G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

issued June, 1907

Devota

Press of J. J. Little & Co.

Astor Place, New York


TO MY BROTHER

JOHN HOWARD EVANS


ILLUSTRATIONS

Page

"Should the day ever arrive may I be there topaint the real woman" Frontispiece 45

"'J'y suis, j'y reste.' He lives that historic motto!" 40

An overwhelming sorrow seized and shook the lonelywoman by the dial 80

"Roy—my own Roy" 122


DEVOTA

A telegram, Madam. Themessenger waits for an answer."

The butler held out a silver salver,and Mrs. Rexford Churchill laid asideher embroidery and took the ominousyellow envelope.

Glancing over the contents, her facebrightened.

"No answer, Ramsay. Tell Hanselto take the dog-cart to the station inample time to meet the 5.42 train, asMiss Lindsay is coming. The trap andvictoria are in the hands of the fishingparty who may be late returning home."

The hostess turned toward her companion,[pg 14]an elderly woman whose whitehair was partly covered by a lace cap.

"This is certainly a charming surprise,and will be as welcome to you andthe Bishop as it is to me.

"Listen, Mrs. Roscoe:

"'I sail on Saturday. Decided suddenlyto run up for a night only to saygood-bye. Expect me by 5.42 express.If bungalow is crowded put cot innursery. Must return on 8.20 trainto-morrow morning.

'Devota Lindsay.'

"When I planned this house partyshe promised to join us, but afterwardwrote cancelling the engagement, whichshe said she could not keep because heruncle insisted on sailing abroad earlierthan she had anticipated. Only threedays ago I received farewell notes and[pg 15]a box of souvenirs for my children whosi

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