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125 X ZURA GOES TO THE FESTIVAL 138 XI A BROKEN SHRINE 147 XII A DREAM COMES TRUE 158 XIII A THANKSGIVING DINNER 174 XIV WHAT THE SETTING SUN REVEALED 190 XV PINKEY CHALMERS CALLS AGAIN 203 XVI ENTER KOBU, THE DETECTIVE 218 XVII A VISIT TO THE KENCHO 235 XVIII A VISITOR FROM AMERICA 243 XIX "THE END OF THE PERFECT DAY" 260 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS She quickly walked across the burning coal _Frontispiece_ PAGE Through the sinister shadows of Flying Sparrow Street 13 Zura Wingate advanced to my lowly seat on the floor, and listlessly put out one hand to greet me 39 The bowing, bending, and indrawing of breath 75 Page started forward. A sound stopped him 113 "God in Heaven. How can I tell her!" 187 "Oh, God! A thief! It's over!" 245 Oh! boy, boy, I thought I'd lost you 263 The House of the Misty Star [Illustration] The House of the Misty Star I ENTER JANE GRAY It must have been the name that made me take that little house on the hilltop. It was mostly view, but the title--supplemented by the very low rent--suggested the first line of a beautiful poem. Nobody knows who began the custom or when, but for unknown years a night-light had been kept burning in a battered old bronze lantern swung just over my front door. Through the early morning mists the low white building itself seemed made of dreams; but the tiny flame, slipping beyond the low curving eaves, shone far at sea and by its light the Japanese sailors, coming around the rocky Tongue of Dragons point in their old junks, steered for home and rest. To them it was a welcome beacon. They called the place "The House of the Misty Star." In it for thirty years I have toiled and taught and dreamed. From it I have watched the ships of mighty nations pass--some on errands of peace; some to change the map of the world. Through
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