Proofed by: Dean Gilley
Bellevue, Washington
deang@baker.cnw.com





THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON
BY
EDITH WHARTON




PART I

I

IT rose for them--their honey-moon--over the waters of a lake so
famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather
proud of not having been afraid to choose it as the setting of
their own.

"It required a total lack of humour, or as great a gift for it
as ours, to risk the experiment," Susy Lansing opined, as they
hung over the inevitable marble balustrade and watched their
tutelary orb roll its magic carpet across the waters to their
feet.