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[Illustration: IN HER ORANGE CLOAK SHE SHONE THROUGH THE VEIL OF MIST,
LUMINOUS]


THE DIM LANTERN

by

TEMPLE BAILEY

Author of “The Gay Cockade,”
“The Trumpeter Swan,”
“The Tin Soldier,” etc.

Illustrated by Coles Phillips






The Penn Publishing
Company Philadelphia
1923

Copyright
1922 by
the Penn
Publishing
Company

[Illustration]

The Dim Lantern

Made in the U. S. A.




Contents


       I. IN WHICH PHILOMEL SINGS                 7

      II. A PRINCESS PASSES                      24

   