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CONTENTS 
 
ROSA COELI.    To my wife 
1 
ABJAD-I-AL’AIN.    To the memory of “ Alain Lutiy ” 
16 
THE HERMIT.    To Cecil Jones 
22 
THE WIZARD WAY.    To J. F. C. Fuller 
24 
THE WINGS.    To Dot 
34 
THE GARDEN OF JANUS    To V. B. Neuburg 
35 
THE TWO SECRETS    To Mary Waska 
45 
THE PRIESTESS OF PANORMITA.    To Hilda Howard 
47 
THE HAWK AND THE BABE.    To Raymond Radclyffe 
55 
THE DUELLISTS.    To Norah Moore 
57 
ATHOR AND ASAR.    To Frank Harris 
60 
AFTER JUDGMENT.    To Ophelia L—— 
61 
THE FIVE ADORATIONS.    To Gerald Pinsent 
64 
TELEPATHY.    To Euphemia L—— 
65 
THE SWIMMER.    To Norman Mudd 
72 
THE MUSE.    To Kathleen —— 
73 
THE GOD AND THE GIRL.    To Dorothy L—— 
75 
ROSEMARY.    To the memory of “ Hippolytus ” 
79 
AU BAL.    To Horace Sheridan-Bickers 
82 
DISAPPOINTMENT.    To Sadie B—— 
83 
THE OCTOPUS.    To my Mother 
85 
THE EYES OF DOROTHY.    To Dot 
86