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_BOOKS BY BASIL KING_
_The Happy Isles_
_The Dust Flower_
_The Thread of Flame_
_The City of Comrades_
_Abraham's Bosom_
_The Empty Sack_
_Going West_
_The Side of the Angels_
_Harper & Brothers
Publishers_
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[Illustration: "THEY'LL SAY I STOLE HIM. IT'LL BE TWENTY YEARS FOR ME"]