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A Face Illumined
by E. P. Roe
Preface

As may be gathered from the following pages, my title was obtained a a number of years ago, and the story has since been taking form and color in my mind. What has become of the beautiful but discordant face I saw at the concert garden I do not know, but I trust that that the countenance it suggested, and its changes may not prove so vague and unsatisfactory as to be indistinct to the reader. It has looked upon the writer during the past year almost like the face of a living maiden, and I have felt, in a way that would be hard to explain, that I have had but little to do with its expressions, and that forces and influences over which I had no control were moulding character.
The old garden, and the aged man who grew young within it, are not creations, but sacred memories.
That the book may tend to ennoble other faces than that of Ida Mayhew, is the earnest wish of
E. P. Roe.
Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, N. Y.

Contents
Chapter I
: A Face..............................................11
Chapter II
: Ida Mayhew.........................................22
Chapter III
: An Artist's Freak.................................35
Chapter IV
: A Parthian Arrow...................................42
Chapter V
: Spite...............................................51
Chapter VI
: Reckless Words and Deeds...........................60
Chapter VII
: Another Feminine Problem..........................71
Chapter VIII
: Glimpses of Tragedy..............................85
Chapter IX
: Unexpectedly Thrown Together.......................96
Chapter X
: Phrases too Suggestive.............................108
Chapter XI
: A "Tableau Vivant"................................118
Chapter XII
: Miss Mayhew is Puzzled...........................126
Chapter XIII
: Nature's Broken Promise.........................137
Chapter XIV
: A Revelation.....................................145
Chapter XV
: Contrasts.........................................159
Chapter XVI
: Out Among Shadows................................172
Chapter XVII
: New Forces Developing...........................184
Chapter XVIII
: Love Put to Work...............................195
Chapter XIX
: Man's Highest Honor..............................203
Chapter XX
: A Wretched Secret that Must be Kept...............209
Chapter XXI
: A Deliberate Wooer...............................216
Chapter XXII
: A Vain Wish.....................................225
Chapter XXIII
: Jennie Burton's Remedies.......................232
Chapter XXIV
: A Hateful, Wretched Life........................239
Chapter XXV
: Half-Truths......................................246
Chapter XXVI
: Sunday Table-Talk...............................251
Chapter XXVII
: A Family Group.................................262
Chapter XXVIII
: Rather Volcanic...............................268
Chapter XXIX
: Evil Lives Cast Dark Shadows....................278
Chapter XXX
: The Deliberate Wooer Speaks First................284
Chapter XXXI
: An Emblem.......................................293
Chapter XXXII
: The Dangers of Despair.........................303
Chapter XXXIII
: "Hope Dies Hard"..............................311
Chapter XXXIV
: Puzzled........................................324
Chapter XXXV
: Desperately Wounded.............................335
Chapter XXXVI
: Temptation's Voice.............................350
Chapter XXXVII
: Voices of Nature..............................360
Chapter XXXVIII
: A Good Man Speaks............................369
Chapter XXXIX
: Van Berg's Escape..............................387
Chapter XL
: Van Berg's Conclusions............................397
Chapter XLI
: The Protestant Confessional......................403
Chapter XLII
: The Corner-Stone of Character...................424
Chapter XLIII
: A "Heavenly Mystery"...........................435
Chapter XLIV
: "The Garden of Eden"............................443
Chapter XLV
: Problems Beyond Art..............................470
Chapter XLVI
: A Resolute Philosopher..........................486
Chapter XLVII
: The Concert Garden Again.......................500
Chapter XLVIII
: Ida's Temptation..............................518
Chapter XLIX
: The Blind God...................................538
Chapter L
: Swept Away.........................................555
Chapter LI
: From Deep Experience..............................569
Chapter LII
: An Illumined Face................................589
Chapter LIII
: A Night's Vigil.................................601
Chapter LIV
: Life and Trust...................................615
Chapter 1.
A Face.

Although the sun was approaching the horizon, its slanting rays found a young artist still bending over his easel. That his shoulders are broad is apparent at a glance; that upon them is placed a shapely head, well thatched with crisp black hair, is also seen at once; that the head is not an empty one is proved by the picture on the easel, which is sufficiently advanced to show correct and spirited drawing. A brain that can direct the hand how to do one thing well, is like a general who has occupied a strategic point which will give him the victory if he follows up his advantage.
A knock at the door is not answered at once by the