PART ONE: LADY LILITH

PARTS TWO AND THREE: _In preparation_

SONIA MARRIED

SONIA

MIDAS AND SON

NINETY-SIX HOURS' LEAVE

THE SIXTH SENSE

SHEILA INTERVENES

NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

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LADY LILITH

by

STEPHEN McKENNA

Author of "Sheila Intervenes," "Midas and Son," "Sonia," "Sonia Married," "Ninety-Six Hours' Leave," etc.

New York George H. Doran Company

Copyright, 1920, By George H. Doran Company

Printed in the United States of America

TO MY MOTHER AND THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE I THE DEATH OF THE PHOENIX 9

II THE COMING OF LILITH 34

III THE SPIRIT OF PAN 58

IV APHRODITE DEMI-MONDAINE 79

V NOBODY'S FAULT 107

VI THE SHADOW LINE 124

VII A MATTER OF DUTY 141

VIII A MATTER OF PLEASURE 161

IX THE JUDGEMENT OF SOLOMON 177

X VINDICATION 198

XI THE LAUREL AND THE ROSE 217

XII AN ERROR OF JUDGEMENT 230

XIII A NOTE OF INTERROGATION 257

XIV THE ANSWER OF THE ORACLE 277

XV PRELUDE TO ROMANCE 294

LADY LILITH

"I became the spendthrift of my own genius, and to waste an eternal youth gave me a curious joy. Tired of being on the heights, I deliberately went to the depths in the search for new sensation ... I grew careless of the lives of others. I took pleasure where it pleased me, and passed on. I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character...."

OSCAR WILDE: _De Profundis_.

LADY LILITH