THE WOUNDED NAME by D. K. Broster Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 Copyright, 1923, by Doubleday, Page & Company All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian. Printed in the United States at The Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y. First Edition CHAPTER I - RUNNING WATER (1) The lady who was writing at the rosewood escritoire near the window paused, and with the feather end of the quill traced along the days of the month on a little calendar headed "1814" which was propped up behind the ink-stand. "April the twelfth," she murmured, and wrote it at the top of the already finished letter under her hand. She was not young—forty-five at least—but she was distinctly charming in her very short-waisted, close-fitting gown of lilac sarcenet. The irregular-shaped room, cool and fresh and sunlit, opened by a small bow-window on her left hand on to a garden that could not have been other than English. And she herself looked English, yet she had just signed a French name at the bottom of her letter, while over the mantelpiece hung the portrait of a middle-aged man with a refined and thoughtful face who did not even look English. The door opened, and a man's voice could be heard speaking to someone outside. "Laurent, is that you?" asked the lady, without looking up. She was sealing her letter. "Dearest, are you going out? Will you take this note to Mesdames Tantes, if you, are passing?—Where are you going, by the way?"
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