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Title: Athalie

Author: Robert W. Chambers

Illustrator: Frank Craig

Release Date: November 27, 2008 [EBook #27342]

Language: English

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ATHALIE

[Illustration: "'Clive is a good deal of a man.... I never
had a better companion.'" [PAGE 242.]]

ATHALIE

BY
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
FRANK CRAIG

NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1915

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

COPYRIGHT, 1914, 1915, BY THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

TO
MY FRIEND
MESSMORE KENDALL

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"'Clive is a good deal of a man.... I never had a
better companion.'" _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

"'Boy?' inquired Ledlie, resting one soil-incrusted
boot on his spade." 2

"'I'd like to come down here for the summer vacation,'
said the boy, awkwardly." 34

"'I'm glad I saw you,' said the girl; 'I hope you
won't forget me.'" 40

"C. Bailey, Jr., and Athalie Greensleeve ... had
supped together more than once at the Regina." 78

"Beside her, eager, happy, flattered, walked C.
Bailey, Jr., very conscious that he was being
envied." 80

"'I like her,' repeated Clive, Jr., a trifle annoyed." 82

"It was in this place that Clive encountered Cecil
Reeve one stormy midnight." 114

"He rather liked being w