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[Illustration: Cover artwork]

THE DRAGON PAINTER

by

MARY McNEIL FENOLLOSA

Author of "Truth Dexter," "The Breath of the Gods,"
  "Out of the Nest: A Flight of Verses,"
  etc.

Illustrated by Gertrude McDaniel







[Frontispiece: "Another step, and she was in the room."]



Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1906

Copyright, 1905,
By P. F. Collier & Son.

Copyright, 1906,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved

Published October, 1906




  The story of "The Dragon Painter," in
  a shorter form, was originally published in
  "Collier's."  It has since been practically
  rewritten.




TO

KANO YEITAN




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


"Another step, a