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GOD TtiJU UN VISIBLE KING
AS HE SEEMS
The New Deity Found by the Creator of Mr. Brit
ling Is a Finite Being Struggling
-Upward With Humanity-
ryifTOIl McFABHK hiul Just liccn wy.
jLjng that ho wns Intensely inlet eslod
In Professor Kent's book on "Tho Social
Teachings of tho Prophets nncl Jesus,"
about which wo had a llttlo discussion n
while ngo when his eye rested on H. G.
Wells's bonk about God, that lay on
my table
"Oh ho'" he exclaimed. "So ho lias
told us about tho God that Mr. Hritllni;
found' What is Ho like?"
I stretched out my nrm and took n
volume fiom a bookcase, opened It and
read
Some necks ago 1 said In a letter.
The dream of my life is rest; not rest
from labor because I am weary, tint
release from itnv or all of my burdens,
tut .Sud s rest , the rest of a soul nt one
with "In, and filled with Hit great life"
I thlnU t have cat oft all created forms
of trutl and tried to grasp with literal
touch of oul the things themselves I
have tried to realize Ood and touch Ills
tubstai e tr'cd to make faith give me,
not tr h but Milistanccs (if courso It
Is Imp "Iblc. yet I cannot admit that It
foolih or an.v thing else than the very
beft fit 1 or any one else can attempt
Thl letter was vvittten, I suppose,
about fiftv vears ago by n voung Haptlxt
preacher in a central Now York village.
There was and still Is n college in tho
lllage A few vears befoie he xvrolo
the letter in 1S59. to bo exact ho de
livered an address to the students, in tho
course of which ho disclosed tho attitude
of mind which led hint to seek to get In
touch with substances. Let me read a
fen sonteni es from tho lecture-
Truth (lows beneath the matrilal world
In an ex 01 -mixing changing stream A
man mav dip cupful b a statement,
but that Is nil and when It rests in his
cup It has lost Its gie.itest character
istics for It has lost Its relations and
Its flow Thete Is no isolation of any
truth Statements do cany
oxer truth from the great ocean of truth
nd puur It Into the spirit and conscious
ness of men but these xessels In which
It Is carried over are small and can
earn but very little at most. and. more
over thev ore often verv leaky, so Mint
by the time thex get to us there is noth
ing in them nt all
"The president of tho college In that
Tillage put tho matter n little dlffciently
When he said a fexv years later that tho
man who writes a cieed for himself
fences out a great deal moro than ho
fences In "
"But what has, all this to do with
Wells'"' tho clergj man's nephew asked.
I was not aware that he had been listen
ing, for he knew that Doiothy Owen
was expected, and his attention seemed
to be directed toward the door.
"It simplv means," halil 1, "that the
great discovery which Mr. Wells thinks
he has made, the ill&covotff that no
creed can express all thcio Is of God
and that God can bo found by earnest
souls looking for Him is not new. Mi
Wells icminds me. in a way. of n ounc
mathematician In ouo of the Gox eminent
depaitments In Washington, who had
never hea:d of a book of logarithms, so
he set to xv oik to prepnio one. It wns
printed nt public expense, and when It
appeared It was full of errors and xvas
r.ot half so good as a book picparcd
ears hefore bv men who had been export
mathematicians befoie tho Government
clerk was born."
Miss Oxxen entered just then, and after
a fexv moments' geneinl conversation sho
and Ames went into the next loom They
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TO H. G. WELLS
eio dlscoxorlng things of moro Immcdb
ate interest to youth than theology.
"Then you think that Wells' book Is
not worth xxliiie." Doctor Mel'abre ven
tuied when we were nlono ngnln.
" no mentis do I think to. It is
ery much xvorth while It deserves tho
tespeet that Is due every earnest and
sincere effort to find the truth. We
""u" HO niiie nbout sti ritual matters
that the experience with them of any
man Is instructive and Inspiring. There
uro doubtless tnan.v men like Mr. Wells
lie was reared in tho atmosphere of ho
old-fashioned theology which made God
a creatine of wrath with a lake of fire
and brlmstono in which to torment all
offenders against Ills law lie savs he
icvolted against this kind of a God when
ho waj thirteen vears old He Is now
fifty. The war has turned his thoughts
to tho great spiritual problems, and be
thinks he has found a Ood who Is differ
ent from tho God of his youth, dlffeient
fiom the God of Christianity, a new
Invisible King to whom all must bow
tho kneo nnd whom all must servo with
their whole heart. Up ims many blttei
things to snv of hoth contempornrx and
historical Christianity."
"Outrageous:" This from Doctor Mc
I'abre.
"Hut manv of the things ho says are
true. Vou remember Professor Kent
said In his bonk that Chilstlanlty had
not been tried It Is tho thing which
has been masiiueiadlng as Christianity
that Wells condemns He docs not seem
to understand that he is righting 1m
posters and not tho genuine thing. He
demands n needless religion. Doctoi
lirooks, the preacher from whoso book
I lead n little while ago, nnd Doctor
I-hidge. the college piesldent. nntlcipatcd
him by half a century, nncl their church
has been orcedless slnco its foundation,
no ono knows how many hundred vears
ago. The Quakers are creedlcs nml tlmv
find God And even tho churches with
creeds nil admit that their statements
are but feeble attempts to express a cer
tain phase of tho truth. They are nt
best what Doctor Hrooks called leaky
vessels. Mr Wells has dinned his cun
into the stieam nnd has held tip to our
gazo a thimbleful That he has got ex en
so much Is to his ciedlt.
"I havo no doubt that much that ho
says will offend many Christians nnd
provoko controversy but It should not
do cither. His God Is neither omnipotent
nor infinite. He is not the Cieutor. but
only a 5-01 1 of a gloillled friend ever
icady to help us In time of need, tolerant
of our mistakes nnd leatly to foiglve us
when we repent, as a mother forgives
her child. It xx-as Voltaire, wasn't It, xxho
said that God created man in his own
Imago nnd man returned the compli
ment? I do not want to be flippant, but
It seems to mo that Mr. Wells's Ood Is
the kind of a deity that Mr. Wells would
bo If ho xveie God "
"Is not
Wells?"
that rather sovero on Mr.
"Oh. no. Hvery one has to express
God In terms that ho understands, Just
as a blind man describes sight In terms
of touch. What wo all need Is tolerance
for tho God of our nclchbors. When
xxo learn that we aie all sincerely seeking
tho same Truth nnd aio willing to com
paio experiences in tho hope of mutual
profit all religion will gain ti nexv life
and tho distinction between believers and
unbolleveis xxlll giadually disappear. If
you did not read 'Tho Gospel of Good
Will,' by President Hyde, of Bowdoln
College, which appealed last xcar, you
missed an admit ablo description of how
Christianity is doing Its work In ways
that vxould havo seemed strango a gen
ciatlon ago. If Mr. Wells had read It
hn might havo been moro tolerant of
Christianity and might havo been less
certain that his new religion Is to dis
place tho old."
Just then thero camo from the next
loom tho voices of a tenor and soprano
sinking:
The king of loxc my shepherd Is,
Whose goodness falleth never.
I nothing lack If I am His
And He Is mlno forever.
Doctor McKnbrc listened with a pleased
smile.
"That's Interesting." he said. "I never
knexv Cabot to sing hymns before."
"Perhaps ho Is putting a meaning of
his own into them."
Gi:ORGG W. DOUGLAS
OOD TUB INVISim.K KINO By It. (1 Wells.
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By F. W. Rain
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A tale told by the Moony-crested God
to the daughter of the Snow concern
ing Aparajlta, cunning as tho Is beau
tiful and rixaled in beauty only by her
own reflection, and Kins Keshaxva, who.
at first adamant to her attractions, for
tified against the xvlles of women by
the teachings of the Pundits, succumbs
to a ruse of Aparajlta's devising, hav
ing first through her sorcery been dls
tenanted from Ills own handsome body
to dwell, .until released, In the unsightly
shell of a deformed barber, who In ex
chango has slipped Into tho body of the
King
Mr. Bain' Other Well
Known Indian Tales aret
A Digit of the Moon
A Draught of the Blue, with
Euence of the Duik
An Incarnation of the Snow
A Mine of Faults
Aihes of a God
Dubblei of the Foam
A Syrup of the Bee
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WOULD BE IF HE WERE GODOLUTION OEnMOmfDEMOCRACT:
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stsKV X 'M.
7 WSzr
HERBERT GEORGE WELL8
DEMOCRACY IS
-ASSERTING ITSELF
The Political and Industrial Rev
olution in England Has
tened by tho War
Just xx-hat the war tins done t.. tho Uritlsh
I'tuplro will not be known xvlth nnx definite
noss of detail until xears after the pace
treaties havo been signed Wo know mm,
howexor, that It Ims set 11 polltli il nnd
social revolution In progress Ihiglund is
not tho same country todnx that it was In
August, 1014 Its Indus! i Is conducted
xxlth elllclencv Its women have cinergod
from iheir seclusion and nre devoting them
selves to tho service of the nation In
numerous vxuvs Its pohtiial parties have
fused for the moment umh r the heat of a
common loxnltx its labor organizations
aro xxorking In harmonx xxlth unorganized
labor All thesn changes havo como nbout
through tho necessities of tho situation
Promises h.ixo been made that the old
order will ho restored xxhen peace comes,
hut these promises cannot ho Uopt When
they are broken thero will come n struggle
It is foi the reason that no ono can fore
tell xxlth tertalntx xxhat the outcome of the
strugglo xi 111 he that xxo cannot fore-cast the
effect of tho war
It Is Important, therefore, for any one xxho
xxuuld understand tho significance of the
developments that aro to como In the net
ten xears to understand xxhat has been
happening in the past thice .xenrs Kor
fills reason Arthur Ulcasons ,liook, Inside
the llrlllsh Isles," is bound to havo moro
lasting value than main of the xxnr books
xv Kh which the publishers are Hooding tho
countrv Air fJleason Is 11 Socialist and
he is plcupd xx Illi the hociallzatlou of in
dustry xxhkb the war has foii-td upon xlreat
Miit.ilu Hut his bellel In S01 Inlisin does
not blind him to the Uiflleult of making
tho change permanent Ills book is really
a study in tho way democracy is, estab
lishing Itself. Hngland has been theorct
Icallv democratlcfl but It xxas governed by
a ruling class, xvhlcn told the masses xvhat
they must do. It Is now goxerncu ny 1110
people who tell the ruling thiss xvhat to
do The people have selected experts of
various kinds to do the work of the empire,
They huvo not cared whether tho experts
vvero Liberals or Conservatives, or xxhether
they had prexlous political experience. Tho
work had to bo dono and tho men fitted
to do it havo been called to the front.
This Is a rex-olutinn the slgnllcanco of
which must not bo ox'crlooked.
The rexnlutlon In the tabor xvorld Is
equally signlllcant Workmen who made
thirteen rlxets netore tne xxar aro mailing
scx-enty In tho same time The prnitke of
limiting output has been abandoned, and
tho men are tiylng to seo how much and
not hou little thej can do Their disagree,
ments xvlth theli omploxcrs nre being set.
tied by arbitration In xxhkh tho rlghtt-
of the employes are recelxlng greater at
tention til, in oxer hefore Women to whom
the vote was denied by tho politicians aie
doing their share or work along xxlth tho
men, and they xxlll become political equals
xvlth tho men xxhen tho linxernment Ik fiee
to tako up tho question. Tho nation Is
committed to It. nnd the politicians must
respect the popular demand
Mr Olinson is Lonxlnced that In ni(om
pllshed reform the llrlllsh aro a genet atlon
ahead of the Pnltcd .States, and that thev
,eo nioie clearlv than we the Immense
lesponsihllltles which the principle of dem
ocratic control rentes Ho bellexes lh.it It
Is necessary for the good of tho xxoild that
the t'lilted' States should open Its es In
xxhat Is going onjn other countries should
abandon lis solf-Inotuelt and should in op
erate xxlth llnglanil nnd I'lunco In the great
work of the fuluie IIIh book Is an Impor
tant contribution to the literature of de
mocracy. ivainn Tin: nitlTtSIt IS!,ns m
Xrthur
Nexx
illeasnn author of oidn
York. The I'entury fompanj
Lads
S-'
Love in the Desert
Those readers of fiction who specialize nn
the hlood-nnd-thunder variety will find
their hearts' desire In "Starr of the Desert,
bv n M Hower The author xvrltes this
tvpo of fiction well enough to make It thor
oughly Interesting flora has not been
sullied on cxery page of tho book and tho
v illaln does not delight In killing other folk
to put him In good humor .Mr Hnxxer has
11 clever and interesting story and this
volume is nulto an Improvement over his
manv other stories of tho West The hero
Is one Mr Starr, a t'nlted States Oov em
inent agent who has liocn fent Into the
Southwest to iheck the Illegal transporta
tion of arms Into Mexico While wandering
through the bills of New Mexico ho en
counters Helen May. tho daughter of old
Stevenson, the goat lancher. Their loxers'
lano" leads them .through many exents,
mysterious, exciting nnd humorous Then
the author goes Into detail and tolls the
reader all about a m.nrlago certllicate and
the event which generally folloxvs
STARIt OF Till! 1)I:s1:RT lly II M noxxer,
lioaion
Little, II rem 11 L Co SI 3.'i
Serious Trifling
A hook that will mako you think Is The
Trlflers " This Is a story that has strayed
away from the beaten track, a story that
preaches a honey-coated fcermon nnd jet n
love tale, charming In Its simplicity The
hero is a young Philadelphia millionaire
and the heroine Is n lovely girl who Is also
the scion of a wealthy family Montague
Covington adhered to the Bame schedule
for many years after he left college. For a
few months of the year he would patronize
the French race tracks. Tarlatan cafes,
ttols chateau and the lHvIcra. Another
fe months he toured Knuland. Mpain, tier
manv and Austria, while the remaining
"u'iiiiii xvere passri in sinnrwge wnere 1
t. .1 ... ..... -. i. . ....... .... '
,,.- ,1 .iiiii-u int. iuuimuii lofin nun aiiieii wit
' h. m to xxhlp u xvlnnlng team Into shape
for his alma mater. After ten years of
this chedule" he wearied of It all nnd
xvns 'Jolly xxell disgusted with living ' until
he met an old ft lend, Margiret Htoxkton
tin had aluaxs Mked Margaret but had
never loxed her nnd Margaret felt the same
toward Monte Hut they both wnnted com
panionship and m Ither cored to lie married
Monte suggests that they wed, but that each
be nlloxveil to ro where he pleaded Voxv
conies the tilnls and trouble of this un
natural pact and the proeiss of .a husband
falling In loxe xxlth his xxlfe Is well told
Th loca'e of the tory is for the grenter
part In sonthirn France nnd Italy
TIIR Til I Ft. Kit
SI in ll.i.li.n
llx rtrd. rieK Orln nnrtlett
MnuaKton Mifflin rimiumx
An American Locko
A first novel Is nlxx-axs Interesting even
xvben It Is uninteresting to the reader wrho
folloxx-s dexelopments In the field of fiction
So mnnv young authors have become
famous almost over night In .the last few
vears that guessing nbout whom tho light
ning xx III strike next has become a fascinat
ing sport It is always unxvlse to make
predictions In mntters literary, but after
rending "Second Youth." Allan I'pdegrnffs
first nox-el, ono Is Inclined to cast dircrc
tlon to the winds nnd enmn out flatly with
tho prophecy that here is an American
author whose nnme, now comparntlxely un
knoxvn. Is likely to command attention nnd
respect Certainly there have been verv
fexv xxorks of fiction offered to the public In
tho last fexv years that possess greater
Intrinsic tfierlt A capital story to begin
xvlth. It Is made the vehicle for some really
admirable character drawing, xvhlle a de
lightful struln of humor runs through the
book With nil thesh elements conspicuous
there Is everv reason why the book should
strike the popular fancy
In breezv narrative and with i Mxle so
charming that one Is tempted to refer to
tho author ns an American I.ocke, Mr
t'pdegrnff tells the storv of a Nexv Yorker
a salesman In tho silks department of a
big store. Into xvhosn prnsnle life Romance
(xxlth a. capital "Il" boisterously enters
Ilnlnnd Torn oil Francis, scion of a once
prominent family which had met xxith
catastrophe, xx-na nlxvaxs romantic. This the
author makes ipilto cleat Tint 1; xxas not
until Kate In the form of a fncln itim;
xx-omau xvlth n fain y to inndiii t 1 en.un e
perlments, walked up to bis munler and
bought fixe yards of "that nexv wild ger
anium" that the romantic drain began to
dexelop After that hoxx-ixer exents tnoxe
tapidly, and Mr Fiancls has flxn loxn
affairs, or near-loxe affair" with n manx
xx omen In a period of four month" He nl'o
dnxelops in many other and Interesting
xxnyH and ins Mime remarkable expeiieres
In xxhlch pathos touches clo.sely upon
humor, liefoio the experimenting woman li
madn to realiro that Mr Francis far fiom
being a lay figure Is a man to ndmlre
honor nnd love.
srci"O.VI) YOUTH, lielns In h nnln -nine ,
munt or the middle eomeOv in th, life ,r t
Nexv York hsrheinr fix Allan I il kt 11
Nexv York. Harper A Pre" SI 33.
Jckyll-Hydc-Orrick-Johns
No better noim of critical Judgment on
thd merits of ' old-fashioned ' poetry ,is op.
posed to unshaikled xcrse inuld he found
than III rtrrlik Jnliti" 1 "plult and 'Mini
I'oems " What Mr Johns cck- to do ami
xxhat hn does ire n usual among tic
imngistea und ine in.iijlv mixed modem
ists, different tlraxelv he Hart 1 out xxlih
a series of pictures of ltv life told rnughlx
ill the city's tongue Nexxshoxs In language
of perfect verity, utter their raucous rails,
electioneering Is flailed in the phiases of
thn gutter: hospital lifo and suffering are
limned, but not xvlth the art of William
Ernest Henley There aren't many IIenlex
xvrltlug verse today
I3ut thero are today a lot of capable,
fluent, sensitively attuned writers of lyiic-i
with thn lyric impetus, if not the urge of
more grnvc-broxxed harmonist One of these
is Dr. Jekyll-Orrlck-Johns He can xvrite
such a thing ns this
Love la n proud snd eenlla thlni. a bstter thine
to oxvn
Than all of th" wln, impossible atirs oxer the
heaxena blown.
Ami the llltle gifts her hand slxea are careless
Rlxeti or taken.
And thouKh His whole, treat world break, the
heart nf her l not ahaken
Lovn is a xlol In Ihe xjltld a viol nexer Hilled
And mine of nil l the eurrat that oxer tlms
lias xvillid.' ...
And the thinas that loxe elvea arter snail he as
they xxere hefore,
Kor life la enl a small house ani loxe Is
an open door
We think that proves the caso against
Mr Ilyde-Orilck-Johns better than pages of
polemics Jekyll should exoiclse the spirit
of Hyde and tho verse that Is free, because
It Is rhythmically and mentally licentious
ASPHALT AND OTIIKR POHJIS lly Orrlik
Johns New York Alfred A Knopf St ..-.
"Mademoiselle Miss"
letters from an American mil aerxlns xvlth
the rank of Lieutenant In a Trench Army Hoa
pltal at the front.
Published for the Iteneflt nf the American
Fund for French Mounded,
Price, SO Cents
W.A,BUnRFIELD,M,ToSJ,ST-
Beaten at Their Own Game
The manner of choosing iliplmnnts In
America lcnp mm h t he deii.cl It lm
resulted In seudlne nhrnnil men xxlth no
prexlous rxperlcme and xxlth no tempera
mental or mental equipment for the xxoik
Yet there have been hi Pliant diplomatists
chosen under this svstem The late Joseph
II Choate made a record In London which
compares favorably with that of any llrlt
ili rriuesentntlve In Washington Ollicjr
big inerlcans have also undertaken the
work of diplomat y and succeeded In It by
tloli .iihiitahllltx, its thev have succeeded
in wliitcxci else they have undertaken
rhe hixe not often appeared In fiction,
li men 1 axe hs caricatures of themselves
tt his mnaitied for "Unvrence Uvrne" tc
pilot a sxmpntlirtiP and Just portrait of an
111erl, hi Xmbassador In the person of
lohii T 1'olliorne "Iiwrenee ltvrne" Is a
name asiumed to conceal Ills Identity by nn
Mnerlcatt with experience In the diplomatic
-eiMre He has xvrllten n novel of life in
the American embassx In n southeastern I
l.uroiean c mntry which will increase the
respect of Americans for their reprrsentn-tlx-es
abroad Colbortie, the hiro, Is n type
that every ono xxlll retognlxe n hard
headed business man. successful In polities
xho Roes abroad to accomplish a specific
thing, does It nnd cotms home. He plavs
the (tame of diplomacy -.o skillfully that hs
heats the Uuinpeana at it. It Is a tale of
love and diplomatic Intrigue that will make
the reader forget the clock
TI'K IMKIIU'W AMKASSXAnnn Ttv tjvwretiei
ftyrne Nexx York fhnrli srlbner's font
tt 3
Inlerviews With Authors
What man or vvomsn would not be
pleased If nn opportunltv xxere afforded to
him to hnxe a t ilk xxith his favorite author"
Such nn optnotunltv comes to few, hut
Tnyeo Kilmer has made 11 his business In
the last two 1 r Ihlee years to Interview n
group of Amerlian novelists, poets, essavlsts
and short storv w rltei s nnd to get from
them their views of their own work as
well as on matters of contemporary literary
Interest. Manx- of these Interviews were
printed orlnlnilly In the Public ledger and
the w York Times Mi Kilmer has
gathered them Into a book cslled "l.ltcratine
In the Making" Home of the xxrlteii xiho
unburdened themselves to linn are I tow ells
John Htirroiighs Amy l.owell, .tames Lane
Allen. Hex Beach Arthur (iultermnn, Kllen
llasgow. tM iv In Arlington Itoblnson. Mon
tngtie Glass nnd Hubert W. I'hambers ier
talnlv a atholli list I "et sons Interested In
litiraix lilston nnd liter.ux misslpwill tlnd
the book Instinctive mil i in. ttiilning It
has hlstniliMl xalu. .mil in flft veirs It
will doubtless be used ns a t-ouri'e Uic.k bx
the men who then set out to write the his
tory of the llteratute of the present period
I.ITKRVTI'RR IN Till' VI VMM! tlv some i.f
Itauiiik.rs rr.aent.,1 l, J.im Kilmer N.
lurk llurpi r llrna
HoniG-IUado Candy
In the "Candy Cook nook. ' the nuthivr
Mice llr.idley principal of Miss Farmer
Si hool of Cookery, glxes three hundred re
liable reclHs for candy that inn be made
11' homo without any special mnttilmry
Sim takes her readers through the vntlnus
stngei of candy making, fiom an explana
tion of the xnluci of different kinds of
sugar nnd their aitlon to ihn proper packing
of elabointo sxxeets after thex hnxe been
mnde The recipes, all of which hnxe been
thoroughly tried and tctrd bx the author
are simple and xxell ndnpted for ordinary
use bv the Inexpeiiemed The process of
c.-indx making Is nn enjoynhle one m.tnx
of lis too soon foi get, but nfter a perusal
of these pages one feels Impelled to go
down Into the kitchen nnd hnxe a good
old-fnshloned t.iffx pu'l or sticky pennut
biillle pnrty Clear and explanatory Illus
trations liberally sprinkled through tho booli
ninke the different processes c-aslly under
stood bx exen n child
THE fANDV t IK11C IKinif
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Mystery Not Too Mysterious
In these daxs of "fiilck-nn-tlie trigger"
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Latei o'i this fault Is overcome and the
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another xxlth suftlcient rapidity to keep the
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of the lonely Florida house where the scene
Is laid is a bit too obvious to warrant the
title the author has been pleased to Mint
but this Is n fault that will be t.a.lih
forgiven bv those who bnve n taste fu
fit Inn of this imiticulnr si hool.
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TliU very cleverly constructed
t.ory has a surprising denouement.
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nil extremely clever-sand rejourn rut The
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dulls Is ho ding and spending the fortunes
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Fletcher I lempsti ad thc'lloriut. without
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ilea's proxlde many leiire situation The
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