_The_ CENTAURIANS A NOVEL BY BIAGI [Illustration] BROADWAY PUBLISHING CO. _835 Broadway, New York_ BRANCH OFFICES: CHICAGO, WASHINGTON, BALTIMORE, ATLANTA, NORFOLK, DES MOINES, IOWA COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY L. D. BIAGI. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I 3 II 23 III 31 IV 39 V 51 VI 63 VII 77 VIII 90 IX 105 X 122 XI 153 XII 182 XIII 210 XIV 225 XV 238 XVI 253 XVII 262 XVIII 273 XIX 297 XX 316 XXI 323 “The Centaurians.” CHAPTER I. Twelve long years of European travel had failed to stale the beauties of my own country. I compared the exquisite, restful view, to the garish expansiveness of foreign panorama. Though fagged and frayed with experience it was a tingling delight to gaze once again upon this fair, smiling, home country, whose mountain-lined distance of vivid heliotrope formed superb contrast to waving fields of deep yellow corn.