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Title: The Call of the Blood

Author: Robert Smythe Hichens

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Language: English

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THE CALL OF THE BLOOD

by

ROBERT HICHENS

Author of
"The Garden of Allah" Etc.

Illustrated by Orson Lowell

[Illustration: See p. 399 "HE STOOD STILL, GAZING AT THEM AS THEY
PRAYED"]

New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
MCMVI
Copyright, 1905, 1906, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
Published October, 1906.

ILLUSTRATIONS

"HE STOOD STILL, GAZING AT THEM AS THEY PRAYED" _Frontispiece_

"'SPACE SEEMS TO LIBERATE THE SOUL,' SHE SAID" _Facing p._ 38

"HE ... LOOKED DOWN AT THE LIGHT SHINING IN
THE HOUSE OF THE SIRENS" " 78

"HER HEAD WAS THROWN BACK, AS IF SHE WERE
DRINKING IN THE BREEZE" " 120

"'I AM CONTENT WITHOUT ANYTHING, SIGNORINO,'
SHE SAID" " 280

"HE KEPT HIS HAND ON HERS AND HELD IT ON THE
WARM GROUND" " 302

"'BUT I SOON LEARNED TO DELIGHT IN--IN MY
SICILIAN,' SHE SAID, TENDERLY" " 366

"SHE COULD SEE VAGUELY THE SHORE BY THE
CAVES WHERE THE FISHERMEN HAD SLEPT IN
THE DAWN"