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A Spirit in Prison by Robert Smythe Hichens
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PREPARERS' NOTE

This text was prepared from a 1908 edition, published by Harper &
Brothers, New York and London.





A SPIRIT IN PRISON

by Robert Hichens




A SPIRIT IN PRISON



CHAPTER I

Somewhere, not far off on the still sea that held the tiny islet in a
warm embrace, a boy's voice was singing "Napoli Bella."

Vere heard the song as she sat in the sun with her face set towards
Nisida and the distant peak of Ischia; and instinctively she shifted
her position, and turned her head, looking towards the calm and
untroubled water that stretched between her and Naples. For the voice
that sang of the beautiful city was coming towards her from the
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