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                          The Wheels of Time


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                          The Wheels of Time

                                  By

                          Florence L. Barclay

       _Author of "The Rosary" and "The Mistress of Shenstone"_


                    _ILLUSTRATED BY R. G. VOSBURGH_


                               New York

                        Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.

                              Publishers


                        Copyright, 1908, 1910,

                      By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.




   _To one woman who said "I go not," but afterwards repented and went_


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                             Illustrations


"Flower," he said, "my lovely fragrant Flower!

"Good old Jane," she said. "I do enjoy talking to you"

"You are not much use at answering questions, darling, are you?"

"Oh, Flower! _You cared like this?_"


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                          The Wheels of Time


The doctor stood, with his hand on the doorknob, and gave a final look
back into his wife's boudoir.

There was nothing in that room suggestive of town or of town life
and work--delicate green and white, a mossy carpet, masses of spring
flowers; cool, soft, noiseless, fragrant.

Standing in the doorway the doctor could hear the agitated clang of the
street-door bell, Stoddart crossing the hall; the opening and closing
of the door, and Stoddart's subdued and sympathetic voice saying: "Step
this way, please." A heavy, depressed foot or an anxious, hurried
one, according to the mental condition of its owner, obeyed; and the
shutting of the library door meant another patient added to the number
of