Produced by Barbara Watson, Ross Cooling and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Books by the AUTHOR OF "THE INNER SHRINE" [BASIL KING] THE HIGH HEART. Illustrated. THE LIFTED VEIL. Illustrated. THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS. Illustrated. THE LETTER OF THE CONTRACT. Illustrated. THE WAY HOME. Illustrated. THE WILD OLIVE. Illustrated. THE INNER SHRINE. Illustrated. THE STREET CALLED STRAIGHT. Illustrated. LET NOT MAN PUT ASUNDER. Post 8vo. IN THE GARDEN OF CHARITY. Post 8vo. THE STEPS OF HONOR. Post 8vo. THE GIANT'S STRENGTH. Post 8vo. HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK Established 1817 [Illustration: "I've been thinking a good deal during the past few weeks of your law of Right"] THE HIGH HEART BY BASIL KING AUTHOR OF "_The Inner Shrine_" "_The Lifted Veil_" _Etc._ ILLUSTRATED HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON The High Heart Copyright, 1917, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published September, 1917 ILLUSTRATIONS "I've Been Thinking a Good Deal During the Past Few Weeks of Your Law of Right" _Frontispiece_ The Marriage She Had Missed Was on Her Mind. It Created an Obsession or a Broken Heart, I Wasn't Quite Sure Which _Facing p._ 118 I Saw a Man and a Woman Consumed with Longing for Each Other " 192 "I've Had Great Trials . . . I've Always Been Misjudged. . . . They've Put Me Down as Hard and Proud" " 410 THE HIGH HEART CHAPTER I I could not have lived in the Brokenshire circle for nearly a year without recognizing the fact that in the eyes of his family J. Howard, as he was commonly called by the world, was the Great Dispenser; but my first intimation that he meant to act in that capacity toward me came from Larry Strangways, on a bright July morning during the summer of 1913, when we were at Newport.