want far
more than you want this--rest from vain desire."

Letty approached the bedside slowly, as if drawn by an enchantment. To
the outstretched hands she stretched out hers. The door was closed,
and once more she was alone with him.

But neither saw that for the space of a few inches the closed door was
opened again, and that an old profile peered within. Then, as slowly,
slowly, slowly, Letty sank on her knees, bowing her head on the hands
which drew her closer, and closer still, a pair of old lips smiled
contentedly.

When the head drew back, the door was closed again.

THE END

Transcriber's Notes:

Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved as printed in the
original book except for the following changes.

Page 38: burred to blurred (her appearance struck him simply as
blurred)

Page 207: musn't to mustn't (They mustn't rush things.)

Page 264: unbridgable to unbridgeable (The gulf had always been
there, yawning, unbridgeable,)

Missing/extra quote marks were silently corrected, however,
punctuation has not been changed to comply with modern standards.
Inconsistency in hyphenation and accented words has also been retained.

Two deviations in paragraph-ending punctuation in the original book
should be noted: on Page 14, the paragraph beginning, "Within, a toy
entry led...." and on Page 42, "There was that about him...." Both
paragraphs end with a comma and have been retained, although
throughout the book a colon was used to end these types of paragraphs
in which dialogue immediately followed.

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Dust Flower, by Basil King

*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DUST FLOWER ***

***** This file should be named 28590.txt or 28590.zip *****
This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/5/9/28590/

Produced by Roger Frank, Darleen Dove and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.

Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules,
set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply