Jewel Weed

								


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JEWEL WEED
by
ALICE AMES WINTER
Author of "The Prize to the Hardy"
With Illustrations by Harrison Fisher

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York
Copyright 1906
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
October

                                   TO

                          MY FATHER AND MOTHER

                      CHARLES G. AND FANNY B. AMES

CONTENTS



   CHAPTER                                                PAGE



         I  A Light from the Far East                        1

        II  Mother and Son                                  28

       III  An Occidental Luminary                          41

        IV  At Madeline's                                   54

         V  Salad Days                                      77

        VI  Jewel Weed                                      99

       VII  Lena's Progress                                116

      VIII  The Falls                                      132

        IX  An Invitation                                  152

         X  Bitter-Sweet                                   173

        XI  Politics and Play                              194

       XII  An Engagement                                  210

      XIII  An Awakening                                   222

       XIV  The Return of Ram Juna                         242

        XV  The Honeymoon                                  269

       XVI  Lena's Friends                                 298

      XVII  Grape-Shot                                     324

     XVIII  Easter                                         344

       XIX  Oriental Rubies                                365

        XX  A Light from the East Goes Out                 391

       XXI  A Light in the West Goes Down                  401

      XXII  Another Beginning                              424

JEWEL WEED
CHAPTER I
A LIGHT FROM THE FAR EAST

In the mists of the infinite, events poise invisible, awaiting their
opportunity to incarnate themselves. They fasten, each after his kind,
on these human lives of ours, as germs find the culture soil they love;
so it follows that to the commonplace comes a life of dull routine,
foolish happenings seek out the sentimentalist, sordid events seek the
sordid and on the mystic dawns the mysterious. Calamities wait there,
too, until Fate points out a weak spot in character on which they may
pounce relentless with the temptation that pierces it. As there are