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                            *THE HEART LINE*

                       _A DRAMA OF SAN FRANCISCO_


                                  _By_

                             GELETT BURGESS

                               Author of
                         The White Cat, Vivette
                    A Little Sister of Destiny, etc.



                         WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

                              LESTER RALPH



                                NEW YORK
                            GROSSET & DUNLAP
                               PUBLISHERS




                             COPYRIGHT 1907
                       THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

                                OCTOBER




                               TO MAYSIE
                          WHO KNEW THE PEOPLE
                                  AND
                            LOVED THE PLACE

                              IN MEMORY OF
                           THE CITY THAT WAS




                               *CONTENTS*

CHAPTER

Prologue

I  The Palmist and Fancy Gray
II  Tuition and Intuition
III  The Spider's Nest
IV  The Paysons
V  The Rise and Fall of Gay P. Summer
VI  Side Lights
VII  The Weaving of the Web
VIII  Illumination
IX  Coming On
X  A Look Into the Mirror
XI  The First Turning to the Left
XII  The First Turning to the Right
XIII  The Bloodsucker
XIV  The Fore-Honeymoon
XV  The Re-Entrant Angle
XVI  Tit for Tat
XVII  The Materializing Seance
XVIII  A Return to Instinct
XIX  Fancy Gray Accepts
XX  Masterson's Manoeuvers
XXI  The Sunrise

Epilogue




                            *THE HEART LINE*



                               *PROLOG