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Title: The Dragon Painter

Author: Mary McNeil Fenollosa

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[Illustration: Cover artwork]

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

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

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

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'"

"Ume-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 v