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THE MAIDS OF PARADISE

A Novel

by

ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

Author of "Cardigan" "The Conspirators" "Maid-at-Arms" etc.

Illustrated







[Illustration: "'LOOK THERE!' SHE CRIED, IN TERROR" [See p. 81]]



[Illustration]

New York and London
Harper & Brothers
Publishers 1903

Copyright, 1902, by Robert W. Chambers.
All rights reserved.

Published September, 1903.




PREFACE


As far as the writer knows, no treasure-trains were actually sent to