Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, tallforasmurf and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE This etext differs from the original as follows. A few typographical errors that did not affect the sense have been corrected. The character U with tilde is shown as [~U]. The oe ligature is shown as [oe]. The original has musical notation at many points, indicated thus: [Music (title, when given)] Where the music also has lyrics, they are formatted as poetry below the that line. [Illustration: FOR THE SOUL OF RAFAEL] [Illustration: "BECAUSE OF ONE LITTLE WHITE VAMPIRE."] FOR THE SOUL OF RAFAEL BY MARAH ELLIS RYAN AUTHOR OF "TOLD IN THE HILLS" "THE BONDWOMAN" ETC. WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN EXPRESSLY FOR THIS BOOK BY HAROLD A. TAYLOR DECORATIVE DESIGNS BY RALPH FLETCHER SEYMOUR ELEVENTH EDITION CHICAGO A.C. McCLURG & CO. 1920 COPYRIGHT A.C. MCCLURG & CO. 1906 Entered at Stationers Hall, London Photographs by HAROLD A. TAYLOR, by permission of The Hallett-Taylor Company The Author is indebted to the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institute of America for the Spanish Music contained in this volume Published May 12, 1906 Second Edition, Sept. 15, 1906 Third Edition, Oct. 1, 1906 Fourth Edition, Dec. 5, 1906 Fifth Edition, Dec. 15, 1906 Sixth Edition, Feb. 11, 1907 7th Edition, Aug. 31, 1907 8th Edition, Jan. 12, 1909 9th Edition, April 30, 1909 10th Edition, Oct. 15, 1910 11th Edition, Nov. 10, 1914 M.A. DONOHUE & CO., PRINTERS AND BINDERS, CHICAGO A MIS AMIGOS DE CALIFORNIA _que siempre me han prestado su ayuda con_ _aquella bonded que les es caracteristica._ M.E.R. ILLUSTRATIONS Page "BECAUSE OF ONE LITTLE WHITE VAMPIRE" Frontispiece DONA ANGELA 32 RAQUEL ESTEVAN 56 KEITH BRYTON 62 "NEVER ON ANY OTHER SHORE" 128 "YOU LIED TO ME--ALL OF YOU!" 166 "R[~U]ELAS ME FECIT: ME LLAMA SAN JUAN. 1796." 176 "THEN I HEARD YOUR VOICE" 240 "HERE AMONG THE RUINS CONSECRATED" 260 "THERE IS NO FORGETTING" 278 THE ALISO TREE 294 AN INNER COURT 302 THE SERENADE 312