A Modern Fantasy

BY

ARNOLD BENNETT

AUTHOR OF "THE OLD WIVES' TALES," "CLAYHANGER," ETC., ETC.

BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY 1911

Copyright, 1907 By HERBERT B. TURNER & CO.

Copyright, 1911

BY SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY (INCORPORATED)

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. MY SPLENDID COUSIN

II. AT THE OPERA

III. THE CRY OF ALRESCA

IV. ROSA'S SUMMONS

V. THE DAGGER AND THE MAN

VI. ALRESCA'S FATE

VII. THE VIGIL BY THE BIER

VIII. THE MESSAGE

IX. THE TRAIN

X. THE STEAMER

XI. A CHAT WITH ROSA

XII. EGG AND MILK

XIII. THE PORTRAIT

XIV. THE VILLA

XV. THE SHEATH OF THE DAGGER

XVI. THE THING IN THE CHAIR

XVII. THE MENACE

XVIII. THE STRUGGLE

XIX. THE INTERCESSION

THE GHOST

CHAPTER I

MY SPLENDID COUSIN