E-text prepared by ellinora, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration and a music recording. See 28711-h.htm or 28711-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28711/28711-h/28711-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28711/28711-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/legenddane00daneiala Transcriber’s note: Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). LEGEND ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LEGEND by CLEMENCE DANE Author of “Regiment of Women” and “First the Blade” New York The Macmillan Company 1920 All rights reserved Copyright, 1920 by the Macmillan Company Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1920. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Music: BEETHOVEN, Op. 57.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LEGEND _Messrs. Mitchell and Bent will shortly issue ‘The Life of Madala Grey’ by Anita Serle: a critical biography based largely on private correspondence and intimate personal knowledge._ That was in _The Times_ a fortnight ago. And now the reviews are beginning— _The Cult of Madala Grey_.... _The Problem of Madala Grey_.... _The Secret of Madala Grey_.... I wish they wouldn’t. Oh, I _wish_ they wouldn’t. _No admirer of the late Madala Grey’s arresting art can fail to be absorbed by these intimate and unexpected revelations_.... _Delicately, unerringly, Miss Serle traces to its source the inspiration of that remarkable writer.... And—this will please Anita most of all_—