[Illustration] THE NAIAD A GHOST STORY _FROM THE FRENCH OF_ GEORGE SAND BY KATHERINE BERRY DI ZÉRÉGA PRESS OF WILLIAM R. JENKINS 851 & 853 SIXTH AVENUE NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY KATHERINE BERRY DI ZÉRÉGA. TO THE LATE =Lady Frankland= THIS BOOK IS LOVINGLY INSCRIBED BY HER MOTHER _PREFACE._ _When years ago the author of this volume read, with delight, the story in the original, she then decided to translate it, in order that others (unfamiliar with the language) might enjoy a similar pleasure; the work of publication, hardly begun, was interrupted by the illness and sudden death of her only daughter, and to one who in so many ways resembled the heroine of this sketch, this book is now dedicated._ CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE THE THREE LOAVES, 3 CHAPTER II. THE APPARITION, 19 CHAPTER III. THE LAW SUIT, 35 CHAPTER IV. THE NAIAD, 52 CHAPTER V. THE DUEL, 83 CHAPTER VI. CONCLUSION, 99 THE NAIAD. CHAPTER I. THE THREE LOAVES.