



Produced by Al Haines









[Illustration: Cover art]





[Frontispiece:  He could picture in the next box Cydonia's golden head
at just the same angle and in between the narrow velvet curtains barely
separating the pair.  _See page 93_.]






THE MAN WITH

THE DOUBLE HEART



BY

MURIEL HINE

(MRS. SIDNEY COXON)




LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD

NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY

TORONTO: BELL & COCKBURN : : MCMXIV




COPYRIGHT, 1914

BY JOHN LANE COMPANY



J. J. Little & Ives Company

New York, U. S. A.




TO

MY MOTHER




  Some starlit garden grey with dew
  Some chamber flushed with wine and fire
  What matters where, so I and you
        Are worthy our desire?
                          --_W. L. Henley_.




THE MAN WITH

THE DOUBLE HEART




PART I

  "Flower o' the broom
  Take away love and our earth is a tomb!"
        --_R. Browning_.




CHAPTER I

The hour was close on midday, but the lamps in Cavendish Square shone
with a blurred light through the unnatural gloom.

The fog, pouring down from Regent's Park above, was wedged tight in
Harley Street like a wad of dirty wool, but in the open space fronting
Harcourt House it found room to expand and took on spectral shape; dim
forms with floating locks that clung to the stunted trees and,
shuddering, pressed against the high London buildings which faded away
indistinctly into the blackened sky.

From thence ragged pennons went busily fluttering South to be caught in
the draught of the traffic in noisy Oxford Street, where