1
Upas Tree, The
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Upas Tree, by Florence L. Barclay This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year
Author: Florence L. Barclay
Release Date: August 6, 2005 [EBook #16454]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE UPAS TREE ***
Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
[Illustration: "That figure was not his own."
From a drawing by F.H. Townsend. (_page 202_)]
The Upas Tree
A Christmas Story for all the Year By
Florence L. Barclay
_Author of "The Rosary," etc_
G.P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1912
COPYRIGHT, 1912
BY
FLORENCE L. BARCLAY
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
To
V.C.B.
53-22146 CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
">
PART I
CHAPTER PAGE
I.--WHICH SHALL SPEAK FIRST? 13
II.--THE SOB OF THE WOMAN 29
III.--HELEN TAKES THE INITIATIVE 40
IV.--FIRELIGHT IN THE STUDIO 44
PART II
V.--THE INFANT OF PRAGUE 67
VI.--AUBREY PUTS DOWN HIS FOOT 97
VII.--A FRIEND IN