AUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMAN

Author of "The Sapphire Signet," "The

Boarded-Up House," etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY

C. M. RELYEA

NEW YORK

THE CENTURY CO.

Copyright, 1917, by

The Century Co.

TO

HOA-SIAN-SI^N-NÎU

(Margaret Gillespie Fagg)

AND TO THE MEMORY OF

HOA-SIAN-SI^N

(John Gerardus Fagg, D.D.)