E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 23996-h.htm or 23996-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/9/9/23996/23996-h/23996-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/9/9/23996/23996-h.zip) JEWEL WEED by ALICE AMES WINTER Author of "The Prize to the Hardy" With Illustrations by Harrison Fisher [Illustration: "Surely you must have read it long ago"--Page 360] 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