1918




COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS


Published March, 1918




The Flower of the Chapdelaines


I

Next morning he saw her again.

He had left his very new law office, just around in Bienville Street,
and had come but a few steps down Royal, when, at the next corner
below, she turned into Royal, toward him, out of Conti, coming from
Bourbon.

The same nine-year-old negro boy was at her side, as spotless in broad
white collar and blue jacket as on the morning before, and carrying the
same droll air of consecration, awe, and responsibility. The young man