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Title: The Dust Flower

Author: Basil King

Illustrator: Hibbard V. B. Kline

Release Date: April 22, 2009 [EBook #28590]

Language: English

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THE DUST FLOWER

BOOKS BY
BASIL KING
----------------------------
_The Dust Flower_
_The Empty Sack_
_Going West_
_The City of Comrades_
_Abraham's Bosom_
_The Lifted Veil_
_The Side of the Angels_
_The Letter of the Contract_
_The Way Home_
_The Wild Olive_
_The Inner Shrine_
_The Street Called Straight_
_Let No Man Put Asunder_
_In the Garden of Charity_
_The Steps of Honor_
_The High Heart_
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HARPER & BROTHERS
Established 1817

[Illustration: THEN SLOWLY, SLOWLY LETTY SANK ON HER KNEES, BOWING HER
HEAD ON THE HANDS WHICH DREW HER CLOSER. [See p. 350]]

THE DUST FLOWER

_By_ BASIL KING

_Author of_
"THE EMPTY SACK" "THE INNER SHRINE" ETC.

_With Illustrations by_
HIBBARD V. B. KLINE

_Publishers_
Harper & Brothers
New York and London
_MCMXXII_

THE DUST FLOWER

Copyright, 1922
Harper & Brothers
Printed in the U. S. A.

_First Edition_
H-W

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
THEN SLOWLY, SLOWLY LETTY SANK ON HER KNEES,
BOWING HER HEAD ON THE HANDS WHICH DREW HER
CLOSER _Frontispiece_

BY THE TIME HE HAD FINISHED, HIS HEART WAS A
LITTLE EASED AND SOME OF HER TENDERNESS BEGAN TO
FLOW TOWARD HIM _Facing page_ 68

THE PRINCE'S FIRST WORDS WERE ALSO A DISTRACTION
FROM TERRORS, AND ENCHANTMENTS WHICH MADE HER
FEEL FAINT _Facing page_ 230

"BUT BY AND BY I CREEPS OUT AND DOWN THE STEPS,
AND THERE 'E WAS, ALL 'UDDLED EVERY WYE" _Facing page_ 328

THE DUST FLOWE