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THE HALO
[Illustration: BRIGIT]
The
HALO
BY
BETTINA von HUTTEN
_Author of "PAM," "PAM DECIDES," ETC._
_WITH FRONTISPIECE_
By B. MARTIN JUSTICE
NEW YORK, DODD, MEAD
AND COMPANY, MCMVII
Copyright, 1907 By Bettina von Hutten
Published October, 1907
TO THE MEMORY OF
A DEAR LOST FRIEND
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
Bettina von Hutten
Thun, Switzerland, _September 5, 1907_
PROLOGUE
A straight stretch of dusty Norman road dappled with grotesque shadows
of the ancient apple-trees that, bent as if in patient endurance of the
weight of their thick-set scarlet fruit, edged it on both sides.
Under one of the trees, his back against its gnarled trunk, sat an old
man playing a cracked fiddle.
He played horribly, wrenching discords from the poor instrument,
grinning with a kind of vacant malice as it shrieked aloud in agony, and
rolling in their scarred sockets his long-blind eyes.
Beside him, his tongue hanging out, his head bent, sat a yellow dog with
a lead to his collar.
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