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A SPECTRE OF POWER
A SPECTRE
OF POWER
CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1903
COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY MARY N. MURFREE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
_Published May, 1903_
A SPECTRE OF POWER
CONTENTS
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Chapter I 1