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A STUDY IN SHADOWS

By William J. Locke

London: John Lane

MCMVIII




CHAPTER I.--THE LONE WOMEN.

|Felicia Graves was puzzled. The six weeks she had spent at the Pension
Boccard had confused many of her conceptions and brought things before
her judgment for which her standards were inadequate. Not that a girl
who had passed the few years of her young womanhood in the bubbling life
of a garrison town could be as unsophisticated as village innocence in
the play; but her fresh, virginal experience had been limited to what
was seemly, orthodox, and comfortable. She was shrewd enough in the
appreciation of superficial vanities, rightly esteeming their value as
permanent elements; but the baser follies of human nature had not been
reached by her