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Title: The Lure of the Mask

Author: Harold MacGrath

Illustrator: Harrison Fisher
Karl Anderson

Release Date: July 27, 2007 [EBook #22158]

Language: English

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_The_ LURE OF THE MASK

_By_ HAROLD MAC GRATH

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
HARRISON FISHER
AND
KARL ANDERSON

INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT 1908

PRESS OF
BRAUN WORTH & CO.
BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS
BROOKLYN, N.Y.

TO
MY FELLOW TRAVELER
AND
GENTLE CRITIC

CONTENTS

I THE VOICE IN THE FOG

II OBJECT, MATRIMONY

III MADAME ANGOT

IV BLINDFOLDED

V THE MASK

VI INTO THE FOG AGAIN

VII THE TOSS OF A COIN

VIII WHAT MERRIHEW FOUND

IX MRS. SANDFORD WINKS

X CARABINIERI

XI THE CITY IN THE SEA

XII A BOX OF CIGARS

XIII KITTY ASKS QUESTIONS

XIV GREY VEILS

XV MANY NAPOLEONS

XVI O'MALLY SUGGESTS

XVII GIOVANNI

XVIII THE ARIA FROM IL TROVATORE

XIX TWO GENTLEMEN FROM VERONA

XX KITTY DROPS A BANDBOX

XXI AN INVITATION TO A BALL

XXII TANGLES

XXIII THE DENOUEMENT

XXIV MEASURE FOR MEASURE

XXV FREE

XXVI THE LETTER

XXVII BELLAGGIO

THE LURE OF THE MASK

CHAPTER I

THE VOICE IN THE FOG

Out of the unromantic night, out of the somber blurring January fog,
came a voice lifted in song, a soprano, rich, full and round, young, yet
matured, sweet and mysterious as a night-bird's, haunting and elusive as
the murmur of the