GERTRUDE ATHERTON
Reading edition
A ROMANCE
Scene: Nevis, B. W. I., 1842
ILLUSTRATED BY C. COLES PHILLIPS
NEW YORK
Doubleday, Page & Company 1908
COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY THE ESS ESS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY GERTRUDE ATHERTON PUBLISHED, OCTOBER, 1908
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
“‘But what a joy to see you in colour. How does it happen?’”
TO MRS. SPENCER WIGLEY, OF ST. KITTS, B. W. I.
“We are all souls of fire and children of the sun.”
—Helmholtz.