THE DANGER MARK
BY
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
A.B. WENZELL
1909
TO
MY FRIEND
JOHN CARRINGTON YATES
CONTENTS
- The Seagraves
- In Trust
- The Threshold
- The Year of Discretion
- Roya-Neh
- Adrift
- Together
- An Afterglow
- Confession
- Dusk
- Fête Galante
- The Love of the Gods
- Ambitions and Letters
- The Prophets
- Dysart
- Through the Woods
- The Danger Mark
- Bon Chien
- Questions and Answers
- In Search of Herself
- The Golden Hours
- Cloudy Mountain
- Sine Die
- 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 fifteenservants considered necessary to embellish the Seagrave establishmentcould do anything with them after Kathleen Severn's sudden departure theweek before.
When the telegram announcing her mother's sudden illness summoned youngMrs. Severn to Staten Island, every servant in the household understoodthat serious tro
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