WHITE MAGIC [Illustration: “There was nothing about him which ... suggested the ill-at-easeness she had anticipated.” [Page 100.]] WHITE MAGIC _A NOVEL_ BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS [Illustration] ILLUSTRATED BY A. B. WENZELL D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON 1910 COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Copyright, 1909, 1910, by The Curtis Publishing Company _Published March, 1910_ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I.--A TASTE FOR CANDY 1 II.--THE PAINTER GETS A MODEL 20 III.--A LESSON IN WOMAN 51 IV.--AN UPSET CANOE 68 V.--AN ATTEMPT TO DAZZLE 97 VI.--THE GUILE OF INNOCENCE 127 VII.--MR. RICHMOND CALLS 144 VIII.--AN INFURIATE FATHER 161 IX.--FAMILY BEHIND-THE-SCENES 175 X.--BEATRICE IN CHAINS 192 XI.--PETER VISITS THE PRISON 209 XII.--UNDER COVER OF NIGHT 225 XIII.--PETER’S BAD QUARTER HOUR 246 XIV.--THE SECOND FLIGHT 274 XV.--WADE’S LOST FORTUNE 280 XVI.--PETER CALLS ON ROGER 294 XVII.--RICHMOND TRIES TO MAKE PEACE 315 XVIII.--MRS. RICHMOND REBELS 334 XIX.--ROGER SORE BESET 351 XX.--BEATRICE LOSES 367 XXI.--ROGER WINS 388 WHITE MAGIC I A TASTE FOR CANDY When Roger Wade’s Aunt Bella died she left him forty thousand dollars in five-per-cent railway bonds and six hundred and ninety acres of wilderness extending from the outskirts of Deer Spring village to the eastern shore of Lake Wauchong, in northern New Jersey. She had contrived to quarrel and break with all her other relations. This was no easy undertaking, and in its success was a signal tribute to her force of character; for, each and everyone of those relatives knew of her possessions and longed and hoped for them and stood ready to endure, even to welcome, any outrage she might see fit to perpetrate. Roger she had not seen in fourteen years--not since he, a youth of eighteen, a painter born, long and lean, with a shock of black-brown hair and dreamy, gray-brown eyes, left his native Deer Spring to study in Paris. He and she had not communicated, either directly or indirectly--a fortunate circumstance for him, as several of Arabella Wade’s bitterest quarrels had begun and had progressed to the irreparable breach altogether by mail. Besides not knowing him she had but one other reason for choosing him as her heir: a year before her death and a week before her last will she happened to read on the cable page of a New York newspaper an enthusiastic note about his pictures and his success in Paris. So the bonds and the land went to him instead of to a missionary society.