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Title: The Danger Mark

Author: Robert W. Chambers

Illustrator: A. B. Wenzell

Release Date: April 17, 2006 [EBook #18185]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "'Please do tell me somebody is scandalised.'"]

THE DANGER MARK

BY

ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

A.B. WENZELL

1909

TO

MY FRIEND

JOHN CARRINGTON YATES

CONTENTS

I. The Seagraves

II. In Trust

III. The Threshold

IV. The Year of Discretion

V. Roya-Neh

VI. Adrift

VII. Together

VIII. An Afterglow

IX. Confession

X. Dusk

XI. Fete Galante

XII. The Love of the Gods

XIII. Ambitions and Letters

XIV. The Prophets

XV. Dysart

XVI. Through the Woods

XVII. The Danger Mark

XVIII. Bon Chien

XIX. Questions and Answers

XX. In Search of Herself

XXI. The Golden Hours

XXII. Cloudy Mountain

XXIII. Sine Die

XXIV. The Prologue Ends

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"'Please do tell me somebody is scandalized'"

"'Can I have what other women have--silk underwear and stockings?'"

"'Duane!' she gasped--'why did you?'"

"Oh, the horror of it!--the shame, the agonized surprise"

"'This is one of those rare occasions ... where goodness is ... amply
rewarded'"

"'I want to confess! I've been horribly depraved for a week!'"

"She dropped him a very low, very slow, very marvellous courtesy"

"Crumpled up like a white flower in his arms"

CHAPTER I

THE SEAGRAVES

All day Sunday they had raised the devil from attic to cellar; Mrs.
Farren was in tears, Howker desperate. Not one out of the fifteen
servants considered necessary to embellish the Seagrave establishment
could do anything with them after Kathleen Severn's sudden departure the
week before.

When the telegram announcing her mother's sudden illness summoned yo