QUICK ACTION "'Are you preaching?' asked Athalie, raising her eyes from the Green God." [Page 252] QUICK ACTION By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS ILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND FREDERICK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON: MCMXIV Copyright, 1914, by ROBERT W. CHAMBERS Copyright, 1913, by Harper's Bazaar, Inc. Copyright, 1914, by The Star Co. Printed in the United States of America TO PENELOPE SEARS DEBUTANTE To rhyme your name With something lovely, fresh and young, And sing the same In measures heretofore unsung, Is far beyond me, I'm afraid;