NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.




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TO MARGARET

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Undine is the name of the water maiden whose story you will read as
you turn the leaves of this little book.

Undine is beautiful as the dawn stealing across the waters, beautiful
as the spray of the crystal waves.

Yet when she comes to earth she comes to seek for that without which
her beauty will be for ever cold, cold and chill as the surge of the
salt, salt sea.

Look deep into her blue eyes and you will see why her beauty is so
cold, so chill.

In the eyes of every mortal you may see a soul. In the gay blue eyes