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BY MYRTLE REED

LOVE LETTERS OF A MUSICIAN LATER LOVE LETTERS OF A MUSICIAN THE SPINSTER BOOK LAVENDER AND OLD LACE PICKABACK SONGS THE SHADOW OF VICTORY THE MASTER'S VIOLIN THE BOOK OF CLEVER BEASTS AT THE SIGN OF THE JACK-O'-LANTERN A SPINNER IN THE SUN LOVE AFFAIRS OF LITERARY MEN FLOWER OF THE DUSK OLD ROSE AND SILVER SONNETS TO A LOVER MASTER OF THE VINEYARD

Chapter Four.

From the painting by Blendon Campbell]

MASTER OF THE VINEYARD

BY MYRTLE REED

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1910

COPYRIGHT, 1910 BY MYRTLE REED McCULLOUGH

Published, September, 1910 Reprinted, September, 1910 October, 1910

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

ALL WHO HAVE LOVED IN VAIN

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE

I--THE HILL OF THE MUSES 1

II--BROWN ALPACA 14

III--THE CRYSTAL BALL 29

IV--APRIL'S SUN 45

V--THE HOUSE OF THE BROKEN HEART 61

VI--MORE STATELY MANSIONS 76

VII--A LETTER AND A GUEST 91

VIII--"WHOM GOD HATH JOINED" 106

IX--A SPRING DAY 122

X--A LITTLE BROWN MOUSE 137

XI--THE HOUR OF THE TURNING NIGHT 154

XII--ASKING--NOT ANSWER 170

XIII--THE STAIN OF THE ROSE 185

XIV--THE LIGHT BEFORE A SHRINE 200