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                         IN THE PERMANENT WAY






                                In the

                            Permanent Way




                                  BY

                          FLORA ANNIE STEEL

             AUTHOR OF "ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS," ETC.





                               New York
                        THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
                    LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
                                 1897

                        _All rights reserved_






                           Copyright, 1897,

                      By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

                              *   *   *

               Set up and electrotyped, October, 1897.
                      Reprinted November, 1897.





                            Norwood Press
                 J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
                         Norwood Mass. U.S.A.






                               CONTENTS


       Shub'rat.

       In the Permanent Way.

       On the Second Story.

       Glory-of-Woman.

       At the Great Durbar.

       The Blue-throated God.

       A Tourist Ticket.

       The King's Well.

       Uma Himavutee.

       Young Lochinvar.

       A Bit of Land.

       The Sorrowful Hour.

       A Danger Signal.

       Amor Vincit Omnia.

       The Wings of a Dove.

       The Swimmers.

       The Fakeer's Drum.

       At Her Beck and Call.

       Music Hath Charms.




                               SHUB'RAT



                                  I

The church