Transcriber's Notes: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. Small uppercase have been replaced with regular uppercase. Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. BOOKS BY MISS DASKAM WHOM THE GODS DESTROYED. $1.50. THE IMP AND THE ANGEL. Illustrated. _Net_, $1.25. FABLES FOR THE FAIR. _Net_, $1.00. SISTER'S VOCATION AND OTHER GIRLS' STORIES. $1.25. SMITH COLLEGE STORIES. $1.50. WHOM THE GODS DESTROYED BY JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM [Illustration] NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS MDCCCCII _Copyright, 1902, by Charles Scribner's Sons_ Published, October, 1902 TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK To K. W. WITH THE FRIENDSHIP OF MANY YEARS J. D. D. CONTENTS _I. Whom the Gods Destroyed_ 1 _II. A Wind Flower_ 29 _III. When Pippa Passed_ 67 _IV. The Backsliding of Harriet Blake_ 101 _V. A Bayard of Broadway_ 127 _VI. A Little Brother of the Books_ 157 _VII. The Maid of the Mill_ 189 _VIII. The Twilight Guests_ 219 WHOM THE GODS DESTROYED I The most high gods have decided that too much power over the hearts of men shall not be given to other men, for then the givers are forgotten in the gift and the smoke dies away from the altars. So they kill the men who play with souls. According to an ancient saying, before they destroy the victim they make him mad. There are, however, modifications of the process. Occasionally they make him drunk.