Produced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) KITTY OF THE ROSES Selected Fiction [Illustration] BACCARAT By FRANK DANBY Illustrated. $1.50 THE ISSUE By GEORGE MORGAN Illustrated. $1.50 OLIVE LATHAM By E. L. VOYNICH $1.50 POKETOWN PEOPLE By ELLA MIDDLETON TYBOUT Illustrated in colors. $1.50 NEW SAMARIA By S. WEIR MITCHELL, M.D. Illustrated. $1.25 AN ANGEL BY BREVET By HELEN PITKIN Frontispiece. $1.50 [Illustration: “PERHAPS I CAN HELP YOU?” SAID A VOICE ALMOST OVERHEAD] [Illustration: title page] KITTY OF THE ROSES BY RALPH HENRY BARBOUR AUTHOR OF “THE LAND OF JOY,” ETC. _With Illustrations by_ FREDERIC J. VON RAPP [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1904 COPYRIGHT, 1904 BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Published November, 1904 _Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A._ TO MRS. JOHN W. ALLISON OF PHILADELPHIA [Illustration] ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE “PERHAPS I CAN HELP YOU?” SAID A VOICE ALMOST OVERHEAD _Frontispiece_ THE BASKET WEIGHTED WITH PINK AND WHITE BLOSSOMS 19 CALMLY SNIPPED TWO BUNCHES OF PINK ROSES 56 STOOD GAZING FULL UPON HIM 158 “AND ME, KITTY?” HE WHISPERED 173 [Illustration] KITTY OF THE ROSES I Through the wide-open window floated in the fragrance of dew-dripping flowers. On the edge of the table a smouldering cigarette sent up a thin, wavering filament of gray smoke that lost itself in the upper gloom of the darkened room, leaving behind it a not-unpleasing odor of the Orient to mingle with the incense from the gardens without. When he paused in his writing--and pauses were frequent--Mr. Stephen Burton’s gaze invariably wandered to the sunlighted morning world represented by the vista at his elbow. [Illustration]