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The Kingdom Round the Corner--_A Novel_
BOOKS BY MR. DAWSON
_NOVELS_
THE KINGDOM ROUND THE CORNER
THE GARDEN WITHOUT WALLS
SLAVES OF FREEDOM
THE RAFT
LAST CHANCE RIVER
THE ROAD TO AVALON
_SHORTER STORIES_
THE LITTLE HOUSE--_Illustrations by Stella Langdale_
THE SEVENTH CHRISTMAS--_Illustrations by Edmund Dulac_
THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY--_Illustrations by W.C. Rice_
_WAR BOOKS_
CARRY ON: LETTERS IN WAR-TIME
THE GLORY OF THE TRENCHES
OUT TO WIN: THE STORY OF AMERICA IN FRANCE
LIVING BAYONETS: A RECORD OF THE LAST PUSH
THE TEST OF SCARLET: A ROMANCE OF REALITY
_POEMS_
FLORENCE ON A CERTAIN NIGHT
THE WORKER AND OTHER POEMS
[Illustration:]"_I'm sorry," Tabs apologized. "I didn't mean anything
unkind._"
_The_ Kingdom Round the Corner--_A Novel_
_By_ CONINGSBY DAWSON
_Illustrated by W.D. Stevens_
"_To every man the woman whom he loves is as Mother Earth was to her
legendary son: he has but to kneel and kiss her breast to know that
he is strong again._"--Michelet
NEW YORK
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
_M C M X X I_
_Copyright, 1921, by Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, New York.--All
rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages,
including that of the Scandinavian_
_Printed in the United States of America_
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
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