[Frontispiece: "Spring," she answered. "Just spring"(missing from book)]

THE SEVENTH NOON

BY

FREDERICK ORIN BARTLETT

Author of "The Web of the Golden Spider",
"Joan of the Alley," etc.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
EDMUND FREDERICK

BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1910
By Small, Maynard & Company
(INCORPORATED)

Entered at Stationers' Hall

Two editions before publication, January, 1910

To
K. P. B. and K. J. B.

CONTENTS