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Title: Princess Zara

Author: Ross Beeckman

Illustrator: Bert Knight

Release Date: January 26, 2008 [EBook #24427]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "I DO LOVE YOU" (Page 215)]

PRINCESS ZARA

By

ROSS BEECKMAN

ILLUSTRATIONS BY
BERT KNIGHT

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1908-09 by
W. J. WATT & COMPANY

_Published January_, 1909

THE THEME

_Two shall be born the whole wide world apart;
And speak in different tongues, and have no thought
Each of the other's being, and no heed;
And these o'er unknown seas to unknown lands
Shall cross, escaping wreck, defying death,
And all unconsciously shape every act
And lend each wandering step to this one end,--
That, one day, out of darkness, they shall meet
And read life's meaning in each other's eyes._

SUSAN MARR SPALDING.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. A LADY OF QUALITY 11

II. A WARNING 22

III. TWO SHALL BE BORN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD APART 36

IV. DAN DERRINGTON'S STORY 45

V. IN THE PRESENCE OF THE CZAR 61

VI. A NIHILIST SPY 69

VII. FOR LOVE OF A WOMAN 85

VIII. THE PRINCESS' ORIENTAL GARDEN 101

IX. A SECRET INTERVIEW 122

X. SENTENCED TO DEATH 143

XI. FOR THE SAKE OF THE CZAR 159

XII. WHEN LOVE WAS BORN 177

XIII. LOVE WILL FIND A WAY 191

XIV. THE SCORN O