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Title: The Upas Tree
A Christmas Story for all the Year
Author: Florence L. Barclay
Release Date: August 6, 2005 [EBook #16454]
Language: English
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[Illustration: "That figure was not his own."
From a drawing by F.H. Townsend. (_page 202_)]
The Upas Tree
_A Christmas Story for all the Year_
By
Florence L. Barclay
_Author of "The Rosary," etc_
G.P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1912
COPYRIGHT, 1912
BY
FLORENCE L. BARCLAY
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
To
V.C.B.
53-22146 CONTENTS
PART I
CHAPTER PAGE
I.--WHICH SHALL SPEAK FIRST? 13
II.--THE SOB OF THE WOMAN 29
III.--HELEN TAKES THE INITIATIVE 40
IV.--FIRELIGHT IN THE STUDIO 44
PART II
V.--THE INFANT OF PRAGUE 67
VI.--AUBREY PUTS DOWN HIS FOOT 97
VII.--A FRIEND IN NEED 113
VIII.--PARADISE LOST 129
IX.--THE PINNACLE OF THE TEMPLE 137
PART III
X.--RONNIE ARRIVES IN A FOG 149
XI.--THE MIRAGE 160
XII.--A FRIEND IN DEED 174
XIII.--RONNIE FACES THE UPAS 192
XIV.--AS IN A MIRROR 200
PART IV
XV.--"THE FOG LIFTS" 209
XVI.--"HE _MUST_ REMEMBER" 223
XVII.--"HE NEVER KNEW!" 246
XVIII.--THE FACE IN THE MIRROR 258
XIX.--UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN 271
XX.--GOOD-NIGHT TO THE INFANT OF
PRAGUE 283
Part I CHAPTER I
WHICH SHALL SPEAK FIRST?
Ronald West stood at the window of his wife's sitting-room, looking
across the bright garden-borders to the wide park beyond, and wondering
how on earth he should open the subject of which his mind had been full
during their morning
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