



Produced by Al Haines









[Frontispiece: "MILK, AN' SUGAR IF YOU HAVE IT"]




  CECILIA
  OF THE PINK ROSES


  BY
  KATHARINE HAVILAND TAYLOR



  ILLUSTRATED BY
  MAY WILSON PRESTON



  NEW YORK
  GROSSET & DUNLAP
  PUBLISHERS




  COPYRIGHT, 1917,
  BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

  COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.

  PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA




  TO
  MY DEAR MOTHER
  SOURCE OF MY INNER PINK ROSES




  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER

  I Where Is Gawd?
  II The Vision of a Promised Land
  III The First Step into Canaan
  IV Learning
  V Disgrace
  VI A Hint of Pink
  VII Santa Claus
  VIII A Little Touch of the Man with the Hour Glass
  IX Home
  X My Best Friend
  XI Acceptance
  XII Pain
  XIII A Request
  XIV Pink
  XV Firelight
  XVI The Mystery
  XVII A Relapse
  XVIII Forgiveness
  XIX Spring
  XX Pulling Off the Thorns
  XXI Pink Roses




  CECILIA OF THE
  PINK ROSES



CHAPTER I

WHERE IS GAWD?

The Madden flat was hot and the smell of fryi