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"Another step, and she was in the room."

The Dragon Painter

By

Mary McNeil Fenollosa

Author of "Truth Dexter," "The Breath of the Gods,"

"Out of the Nest: A Flight of Verses,"

etc.

Illustrated by

Gertrude McDaniel

Boston

Little, Brown, and Company

1906

Copyright, 1905,

BY P. F. COLLIER & SON.

Copyright, 1906,

BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

All rights reserved

Published October, 1906

The story of "The Dragon Painter," in

a shorter form, was originally published in

"Collier's." It has since been practically

rewritten.

TO

KANO YEITAN

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Another step, and she was in the room" . . . Frontispiece

"With the soft tuft of camel hair he blurred against the

peak pale, luminous vapor of new cloud

"He walked up and down, sometimes in the narrow room,

sometimes in the garden"

"'Come, Dragon Wife,' he said, 'come back to our little home'"

"Umè-ko leaned over instantly, staring down into the stream"

"Then a little hand, stealing from a nun's gray sleeve,

slipped into his"

THE DRAGON PAINTER

I

The old folks call it Yeddo. To the young, "Tokyo" has a pleasant, modern sound, and comes glibly. But whether young or old, those whose home it is know that the great flat city, troubled with green hills, cleft by a shining river, and veined in living canals, is the central spot of all the world.

Storms visit Tokyo,—with fury often, sometimes with destruction. Earthquakes cow it; snow falls upon its temple roofs, swings in wet, dazzling masses from the bamboo plumes, or balances in white strata along green-black pine branches. The summer sun scorches the face of…

  

 

  

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