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  BOOKS BY GUY WETMORE CARRYL

  _PUBLISHED BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY_ THE TRANSGRESSION OF ANDREW VANE $1.50

  _PUBLISHED BY HARPER AND BROTHERS_ FABLES FOR THE FRIVOLOUS $1.50 MOTHER GOOSE FOR GROWN-UPS $1.50

  _PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO._ GRIMM TALES MADE GAY $1.50 THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR $1.50 ZUT, AND OTHER PARISIANS $1.50

  Guy Wetmore Carryl.]

  The Transgression of Andrew Vane

  _A NOVEL_

  BY GUY WETMORE CARRYL _Author of "Zut, and Other Parisians"_

 

  NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1904

  Copyright, 1904 BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY _Published April, 1904_

  ROBERT DRUMMOND, PRINTER, NEW YORK

  TO HENRY HOLT

  Table of Contents.

  PAGE PROLOGUE 1 CHAPTER I. MR. CARNBY RECEIVES A LETTER 22 CHAPTER II. NEW FRIENDS AND OLD 36 CHAPTER III. THE GIRL IN RED 51 CHAPTER IV. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER 71 CHAPTER V. THE GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT 89 CHAPTER VI. A REVOLT SUPPRESSED 106 CHAPTER VII. A PLEDGE OF FRIENDSHIP 117 CHAPTER VIII. A PARLEY AND A PRAYER 130 CHAPTER IX. THE WOMAN IN THE CASE 143 CHAPTER X. THE FAIRY GODMOTHER 159 CHAPTER XI. SOME AFTER-DINNER CONVERSATION 175 CHAPTER XII. REACTION 192 CHAPTER XIII. RHAPSODIE HONGROISE, NO. 2 204 CHAPTER XIV. FATE IS HARD--CASH! 218 CHAPTER XV. "AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING, IS NOW, AND EVER SHALL BE." 237 CHAPTER XVI. A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 256 CHAPTER XVII. A DOG AND HIS MASTER 268 CHAPTER XVIII. FAIR EXCHANGE IS NO ROBBERY 283 CHAPTER XIX. REDEMPTION 297 CHAPTER XX. THE SHADOW 311

  The Transgression of Andrew Vane

  For the things ye do, when your life is new, And your sin is sinned with a smile, Ye shall pay full sore, ye men, though the score The Fates hold back for a while: Ye shall pay, at the end, for your frauded friend, For the secret your lips betray, For the lust and the lie, to the Gods on High Ye shall pay--ye shall pay--ye shall pay!

  Ye shall pay ten-fold, with your heart's best gold, Ah, tempted women and true! Ye shall render account, to the full amount, For each beautiful thing ye do. For the youth ye yield, for the soul ye shield, For the pitiful prayers ye pray, 'Tis the fancy of Fate that, soon or late, Ye shall pay--ye shall pay--ye shall pay!

  The Transgression of Andrew Vane.