Hills of Han: A Romantic Incident. Samuel Merwin

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       CHAPTER XIV—DILEMMA

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       CHAPTER XV—THE HILLS

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       CHAPTER XVI—DESTINY

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       CHAPTER XVII—APPARITION

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       CHAPTER XVIII—THE DARK

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       CHAPTER XIX—LIVING THROUGH

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       CHAPTER XX—LIGHT

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       CHAPTER XXI—THE SOULS OF MEN

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       CHAPTER XXII—BEGINNINGS

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      The slight geographical confusion which will be found by the observant reader in Hills of Han is employed as a reminder that the story, despite considerable elements of fact in the background, is a work of the imagination, and deals with no actual individuals of the time and place. S. M.

HILLS OF HAN

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CHAPTER I—THE SOLITARY

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      ON a day in late March, 1907, Miss Betty Doane sat in the quaintly airy dining-room of the Hotel Miyaka, at Kioto, demurely sketching a man's profile on the back of a menu card.

      The man, her unconscious model, lounged comfortably alone by one of the swinging windows. He had finished his luncheon, pushed away his coffee cup, lighted a cigarette, and settled back to gaze out at the hillside where young green grasses and gay shrubs and diminutive trees bore pleasant evidence that the early Japanese springtime was at hand.

      Betty could even see, looking out past the man, a row of cherry