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Title: The Gay Cockade

Author: Temple Bailey

Illustrator: C. E. Chambers

Release Date: August 4, 2005 [EBook #16433]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: AND HERE, DAY AFTER DAY, HE SAT ALONE]

THE
GAY COCKADE

BY
TEMPLE BAILEY

AUTHOR OF
THE TRUMPETER SWAN,
THE TIN SOLDIER, Etc.

FRONTISPIECE BY
C.E. CHAMBERS

[Illustration]

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Made in the United States of America

COPYRIGHT
1921 BY
THE PENN
PUBLISHING
COMPANY

[Illustration]

Manufacturing
Plant
Camden, N.J.

Made in U.S.A.

The Gay Cockade

For permission to reprint some of the stories in this volume, the author
is indebted to the courtesy of the editors of _Harper's Magazine_,
_Scribner's Magazine_, _Collier's Magazine_, _Ladies' Home Journal_,
_Saturday Evening Post_, _Good Housekeeping_, and _Harper's Bazar_.

Contents

THE GAY COCKADE 7

THE HIDDEN LAND 33

WHITE BIRCHES 84

THE EMPEROR'S GHOST 118

THE RED CANDLE 132

RETURNED GOODS 149

BURNED TOAST 165

PETRONELLA 187

THE CANOPY BED 205

SANDWICH JANE 223