[Illustration: "HER BLOOD WAS POUNDING AND HER VOICE WAS IN FLIGHT"]


STAR-DUST

A Story of an American Girl

BY FANNIE HURST

1921



Book One

THE VINE

Oh, the little more and how much it is:
And the little less, and what worlds away.
--BROWNING.

[Greek: Zoae]




CHAPTER I

When Lilly Becker eked out with one hand that most indomitable of
pianoforte selections, Rubinstein's "Melody in F," her young mind had a