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Title: The Old Flute-Player
A Romance of To-day

Author: Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

Illustrator: Clarence Rowe and J. Knowles Hare, Jr.

Release Date: February 23, 2006 [EBook #17841]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Anna _Frontispiece_]

The Old Flute-Player

A Romance of To-day

BY

EDWARD MARSHALL

AND

CHARLES T. DAZEY

_Illustrations by_

CLARENCE ROWE

_Frontispiece by_

J. KNOWLES HARE, JR.

G.W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

_Copyright, 1910, By_

G.W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

ILLUSTRATIONS

Anna _Frontispiece_

Almost instantly the Italian bully was sprawling in the scuppers and
Vanderlyn had raised the old man to his feet

It was as if the "sweet birds singing in his heart" had risen and were
perched, all twittering and cooing, chirping, carolling upon his lips

"She is not guilty! No; it is I--I--I!"

The Old Flute-Player

CHAPTER I

Herr Kreutzer was a mystery to his companions in the little London
orchestra in which he played, and he kept his daughter, Anna, in such
severe seclusion that they little more than knew that she existed and
was beautiful. Not far from Soho Square, they lived, in that sort of
British lodgings in which room-rental carries with it the privilege of
using one hole in the basement-kitchen range on which to cook food
thrice a day. To the people of the lodging-house the two were nearly
as complete a mystery as to the people of t