CHAPTER PAGE

I enter Jane gray 3
II Kishimoto San Calls 16
III Zura 32
IV Jane gray brings home A man 55
V A call and an invitation 70
VI Zura WINGATE’S visit 85
VII an interrupted dinner 95
VIII Mr. Chalmers sees the garden and hears the truth 108
IX Jane hopes; Kishimoto despairs 125
X Zura goes to the festival 138
XI A broken shrine 147
XII A dream comes true 158
XIII A Thanksgiving dinner 174
XIV what the setting sun revealed 190
XV Pinkey Chalmers Calls again 203
XVI enter Kobu, the detective 218
XVII A visit to the Kencho 235
XVIII A visitor from America 243
XIX “The end of the perfect day” 260

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

She quickly walked across the burning coal Frontispiece

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Through the sinister shadows of Flying Sparrow Street 13

Zura Wingate advanced to my lowly seat on the floor, and
listlessly put out one hand to greet me 39

The bowing, bending, and indrawing of breath 75

Page started forward.  A sound stopped him 113

“God in Heaven.  How can I tell her!” 187

“Oh, God!  A thief!  It’s over!” 245

Oh! boy, boy, I thought I’d lost you 263

The House
of the Misty Star

[Illustration]

The House
of the Misty Star

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ENTER JANE GRAY

It must have been the name that made me take that little house on the hilltop.  It was mostly view, but the title—­supplemented by the very low rent—­suggested the first line of a beautiful poem.