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Title: Master of the Vineyard

Author: Myrtle Reed

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Language: English

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BY MYRTLE REED

LOVE LETTERS OF A MUSICIAN
LATER LOVE LETTERS OF A MUSICIAN
THE SPINSTER BOOK
LAVENDER AND OLD LACE
PICKABACK SONGS
THE SHADOW OF VICTORY
THE MASTER'S VIOLIN
THE BOOK OF CLEVER BEASTS
AT THE SIGN OF THE JACK-O'-LANTERN
A SPINNER IN THE SUN
LOVE AFFAIRS OF LITERARY MEN
FLOWER OF THE DUSK
OLD ROSE AND SILVER
SONNETS TO A LOVER
MASTER OF THE VINEYARD

[Illustration: "She was not looking at him now, but far across the
valley where the vineyard lay."

_Chapter Four._

_From the painting by Blendon Campbell_]

MASTER OF THE
VINEYARD

BY MYRTLE REED

[Illustration]

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1910

COPYRIGHT, 1910
BY
MYRTLE REED McCULLOUGH

Published, September, 1910
Reprinted, September, 1910
October, 1910

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

[Sidenote: Dedication]

TO

ALL WHO HAVE LOVED IN VAIN

[Sidenote: Contents]

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE

I--THE HILL OF THE MUSES 1

II--BROWN ALPACA 14

III--THE CRYSTAL BALL 29

IV--APRIL'S SUN 45

V--THE HOUSE OF THE BROKEN HEART 61

VI--MORE STATELY MANSIONS 76

VII--A LETTER AND A GUEST 91

VIII--"WHOM GOD HATH JOINED" 106

IX--A SPRING DAY 122

X--A LITTLE BROWN MOUSE 137

XI--THE HOUR OF THE TURNING NIGHT 154

XII--ASKING--NOT ANSWER 170

XIII--THE STAIN OF THE ROSE 185