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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
For avildoers shall be cut off: but those that
wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.
«~Psalm 37:9,
If there be a divine providence, no good man need
be afraid to do right; he will only fear to do wrong.
Haygood.
CATTON’S COMMENT
Congress moved fast—for Congress—in voting to
keép. American exporters from shipping munitions
‘to war-torn Spain, One shipload did get away,
put it does not look as if there will be any more,
and all is quiet along the Potomac.
_That quiet, however, is meginning to be disturbed
by, the plaintive cries of the lovers of liberty.
These people are complaning that our neutrality
program is not, in actual fact, a non-partisan affair,
Far from bearing on hebel and government forces
alike, they protest, 1t plays right into the hands
of the rchels, For the Spanish rebels have their
own supplies of munitions and are doing right well
with them; the Spanish government vitally needs
:uch imports, and, by cutting off the shipments, our
government is giving valuable aid to the Fascists.
Since we are apparently fated to have some sort
of rigid embargo law as a part of our neutrality
program, this complaint is worth examining care
fully—for whenever we apply an embargo, a similar
complaint will be made by partisans of one side or
the other.
And the best way to approach it is to understand
that any embargo law we pass, in any European
war that may develop, is bound to help one side
and hurt the other,
1t is so in Spain today. It will be so in any war
in the future. We simply can't have an embargo
law that will help us keep out of war if We are go
ing to try to apply it in a scrupulously fair and non
partisan manner. ’
The World War offers the best illustration. If we
had an embargo law then, it would have hurt the
allies very badly, 'lt would not have bothered the
Germans, for they couldn't get out and get our sup
plies anyway.
. The effect of the law would have been one-sided—
just as the policy we actually did follow, of selling
munitions to anyone who could come over and buy
them, was one-sided.
But the very essence of our projected neutrality
program is that we refuse to worry about the for
tuneg of warring parties overseas. That is what
real neutrality means, The moment we start shap
ing our policy with one eye on the effect it will
have on this or that European group, we cease to
be ncutral.
The present embargo is a direct help to the Fas
cst group in Spain, Granted. I a real European
war breaks out, our embargo will be a direct help
to Germany, or to Italy, or to France, or to some
body else. That, too might as well be taken for
granted in advance,
If we are going to have a real neutrality program,
it will hurt somebody. The only way to avoid that
is to have no neutrality program at all,
This is supposed to be the age of electricity. From
the way we talk you might suppose—if you didn’t
know better—that even the humblest home has at
least its electric lights.
But the kerosene lamp is far from extinct. The
family of Willlam Zeigler, for instance, still uses
them in the home near Willard, Ohio; and the other
night, when Mrs, Zeigler tried to refill a living room
lamp that had already been lighted, a can of kero
sene exploded, killed Mrs., Zeigler and a small
daughter, and burned three ohter children so badly
that they are not expected to recover.
_ That is the sort of tragedy that belongs to the
pre-electrical age, That it happened in the middle
of the progressive state of Ohio is ample testimony
that the men who generate and sell electric current
have a wide field that still awaits cultivation.
- A traffic squad expert in a large American city
recently published figures showing that more than
half of the fatal accidents in his city in 1936 took
place at night—although, as a moment’s reflection
ws, by far the greater part of any city's traffic
fives in daylight.
" The reason is not far to seek, Streets are often
poorly lighted. On rainy nights every light sheds a
dozen confusing reflections—on windshields, on auto
‘windows, on gleaming pavement. Pedestrians, un
‘warily crossing the street in the middle of the block,
are invisible until the driver is almost on top of
them.
Part of the remedy, of course, is better street
lighting. But the thing that is chiefly needed is
greater care on the part of the drivers, It ought
1o be obvious that to try to make daytime speed un
der nighttime’s conditions of limited - visibility is
bound to lead to tragedies. : '
FOR THE RELIEF OF SUFFERERS
Possibly the greatest disaster that has
ever been visited upon this nation is the
flood that has inundated large areas in
practically a dozen states. The flood
swept sections have left millions 'of people
helpless — without food, clothing and
homes. Hundreds of these people have
been drowned and many others have died
lfrom deprivations caused by freezing
| weather, lack of food, medicine, nurses
|and doctors. Towns and cities, to say |
nothing of the rural sections in these
!states, are perfect flood gatesfortheover-|
flow of these mad streams that have swept
'homes and business houses away as mere§
trash, carrying destruction of property, as!
well as lives, to all sections of the flood |
stricken country. It is the most horrible
condition these states have ever experien
ced. The people are helplss, and with
out aid from those in favored sections of]|
‘the nation, the death toll will reach into|
thousands to say nothing of the millions|
‘who will suffer from the pangs of hungerl
and destitution. The people of Athens|
have been called upon for the small sum|
of five hundred dollars, to be used for the
relief of these flood stricken people; be
fore this day has passed, we believe that
not only Athens quota will be subscribed,
but that twice that amount will be given
by our liberal-hearted citizens. It is a
cause that should appeal to the hearts
and pocketbooks of every citizen of this
community. The call is one of emergency
and no delay should occur in collecting
and remitting, not only the five hundred
dollars, as requested by Admiral Grayson,
national chairman of the Red Cross So
ciety, but twice that amount should bel
given by the people of Athens and Clarke
county. ; l
Last year when Gainesville and Cordele|
were visited by storms, the National Red
Cross Society, without delay or bickering,
responded to the distress call and aided
very materially in the relief of the suf
ferers of those cities and communities. |
That organization has never failed tol
rally promptly in relieving the sick, dis
abled and needy brought on by uncontrol-l
lable disasters. The amount asked of the
people of this community is for humane
purposes, to be used for the relief of those
who from no fault of theirs have been|
placed in a condition beyond their control.
Do not wait to be solicited, but send your
contributions to Mrs. George D. Thomas
or to the Red Cross Society in the Clarke
tcounty court house. !
STORING AWAY BILLIONS OF GOLD
The government has completed a two
story vault, built of steel, concrete and
stone at Fort Knox, Ky. The location
is in an isolated section of that state, in
accessable to reach via automobiles or
other modes of travel. One of the reasons
given for moving all this gold from the
large cities of the country and depositing
it in a rural section, was that in case of
war with foreign nations, its location
would be harder to reach. The amount
of gold transported to the new headquar
ters is estimated at 6,000 tons with a
value of approximately six billion dollars.
While this vault is impregnable, the
government has surrounded it with mili
tary guardsarmed to the teeth toresist any
event of being prepared to resist any
kind of attacks that might be made for
raiding the treasury. The men armed with
machine gune, electric warning devices,
flood lights and every modern means for
protection and insuring the safety of the
deposit.
Poison gas will be used in the event any
effort is made to break in and steal the
gold. The push of a button and the
flame of an acetyline torch releases the
poison, producing almost instant death.
The fortress is bomb proof and one of the
most substantial buildings owned by
Uncle Sam. |
~ The gold shipment was made from New
York and Philadelphia, where it had,
been in possession of the government, butl
a safer place was decided necessary and
the Kentucky fort was settled upon for]
the reason that it is believed that it will
be safer there, under guard, than it would
be in the large cities of the nation.
MARGARET MITCHELL’S BOOK
“Gone With The Wind” has broken all
records in sales, and is the first novel to
pass the million mark in recent years. A
decade ago, “Outline of History” by H.
G. Wells reached the million mark, but
not as rapidly as did the bhook of Miss
Mitchell.
Some years ago, “In His Step” led the
list at that time with a sale of 8,000,000
to be followed by “Ben Hurr” with 1,950,-
000. “Gone With the Wind” was written
by an Atlanta girl, dealing with the life
and times of the old south, especialy re
lating to the War Between the States. It
is full of interest and gripping to the read
er, who is loathe to lay it down until every
line has been read. @
Now that it is to be dramatized and
placed on the screen, those who have not
read the book will be able to see it played
by performers especially picked for the
various parts and characters, Its success
on the screen is bound to equal that of
the sale of the book which now stands
as the leader of all other novels of recent
years. - .
If the sun were a tegnis balil, the earth
could be represented by a grain of sand
23 feet away. If these two objects were
placed at New Orleans, the nearest star,
reduced to the same scale, would be an
other tennis ball, as far distant as Du
luth, Minn,
When a bird of prey is flying easily, it
keeps its wings slightly bent. But when
climbing fast, it straightens them out, and
spreads the primary quills, which sepa
rate the feathers from one another over a
length of a fifth of the wing. it
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DID IT EVER
OCCUR TO ‘U’
The program for the Press
Institute, to be held at the
University of Georgia in Feb
ruary, promises to be one of
the best in the history of the
Institute.
Editer John Paschall, of the
Atlanta Journal, chairman of the
program committee, and Professor
John E. Drewry, of the Henry W.
Grady School of Journalism, have
worked unceasingly to secure
celebrities of outstanding réputa
tion to be the guest of the insti
tute during press week. These
gentlemen have had charge of the
programs for several years, and
at no time have they failed in
securing a well-rounded program
which has been a delight and
benefit to the newspaper folk.
The Press Institute, founded
by Miss Emily Woodward, has
proved a great success and
benefit to the editors as well
as entertaining to the public.
' Miss Woodward is a member of
‘the program committee, and aids
'materially in the work of the com
mittee, .before and during the
days of the institute. She is a
past president of the Georgia Press
Association and the only woman
who has ever been honored with
that office. For years she owned
and edited the Vienna newsparer,
which, was considered one of the
bes:c weekly publications in the
state. Since selling that property,
she has contributed a number of
feature stories and articles to the
large dailies, all of which were of
interest to the reading public.
Speaking of women as edi
tors and writers we are re
minded of Mildred Seydell,
columnist for the Georgian-
American, whose writings are
widely read and appreciated.
Mrs. Seydell is more than a col
umnist. She is an author, lectur
er, traveler, and we might say, an
exrlorer; for she has explored
several foreign countries, giving
the readers of her newspapers the
benefit of hr findings. To us, she
is the most interesting descrip
tive writer we have ever known.
Her writings on and about things,
scenes and happenings in Mexico
are as gripping to the reader as
“Gone With the Wind,w" Peggy
Mitchell’s novel, the most popular
of the age. Mrs. Seydell's story
in last Sunday’s American, under
headlines of “Mexicans Know
How to Mix Their Work and
Play,” was told in her own inimi
cal style, which is so pleasing to
the thousands of readers of her
column. 4
. We are not so sure about the
joke we are using today, but
as our supply h.s run short,
we are using one by Luke
Pettus, editor of Savannah
Rotary.
Here it is, just as it was printed
in Rotary, and that should give it
entree to the readers of this col
umn:
Mary—“Do you ever allow a
man to kiss you when you're out
motoring with him?"
Anne—“lndeed I do not. llf a
man can drive safely while kissing
me he's not giving the kiss the at
tention it deserves.” 3
The writer of this column is
appreciative of a letter and
autographed photograph from
James A. Farley, chairman of
the National Democratic Com
mittee and Postmaster-General.
In his letter, among other things.
Ring wiffsouf a counfru
b Robert Beuce
| BEGIN HERE TODAY
| Surrendering the throne of
- Northumbra for the love of
Ardath Richmond, Canadian
born actress, King Paul | be
~ comes private citizen Paul Fer
rone, buys a charming villa
on the Bay St. Francis and
believes he is a free man at
last.
But quickly he finds he is
not free after all. For the
eyes of the world continue to
pry in on him; there is no
stimulation in the vacuous
Countess Di Marco, Reggie
Van Twyne and the gay resort
crowd; life lacks a purpose.
So Paul takes the advice of
his old tutor, Dr. Sonders,
he travels, buys a sailing ship,
travels some more, But ever
the shadow of the lost throne
follows him. - Eventually he
and Ardath quarre| over her
friends. Paul takes more and
more to his boat.
Then one day he suggests to
Ardath they have achild. Ang
rily, sh 2 replies: ‘“Paul, are
you insane?”’ Paul is badly
shaken. A week Jlater, at a
party at his villa, Paul over
hears Van Twyne talking fa
miliarly to Ardath. He tells
her to leave Paul. She admits
it's a sorry affair but swears
she must stay by ‘Paul. “Well”,
says Reggie, “sooner or later
. . » and when you do, little
Reggie’ll ve on deck.”
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER X
Dawn was breaking, at last,
when Paul finally went up to his
dressing room. The last of the
guests had left, the orchestra and
the paid entertainers had gone,
and the tawdry equipment of the
party—the rows of Japanese lan
terns, the dance floor on the lawn,
the flimsy platform for the orch
eatra-—looked forlorn and dingy in
the c¢lean morning light.
The sun came up over the water
and turnreq the bay and its flank
ing shoreline to a place of en
chantment and mystery. It gave
the wiiter a richer, leeper blue
than any sailor had seen, it made
the red roofs and white walls of
the villas gleam with a radiance
of their own, and it lighted the
far tip of rocky Cape Roman as
if it we re lighting a beacon on
the sea-road back to a lost king
dom. ;
Paul took a last look from his
balcony and went into his dress
ing room. There was a tap on his
door, and Ardath came in. She
wore a negligee over her night
robe, and her face was anxious.
“There you are,” she said. “Paul,
where have you been? You wor
ried me.”
Paul looked gt/her. His face was
pale and his eyes were tired; and
he looked for a long time at the
woman whom he had followed and
loved through a year of exile. He
sat down, atlast, and turned wear
ily away.
“I've been a long way ogf —_a
very long way,” he said slowly.
“So far that 1 could see—us-—as
I never was able to see us before.”
Mr. Farley referred to our elec
tion as a member of the Clarke
County Democratic Executive
Committee, with the following ex
pressions: “Mighty happy that
you were re-elected for four
vears. I am sending you under
separate cover an autographed
photograph.” The rhotograph has
been received. and will be piaced
along with the photographs of a
number of our friends on the
walls of our office, where portraits
of President Roosevelt and Vice-
President Garnec. how hang.
© NEA. Service Ine ©
Her brow wrinkled with worry.
“Paul, dearest, what do you
mean?”
“It's a funny country I went
into,” he mused. “A country where
all the shams and pretenses fall
away, and Vyou see yourself—and
other people—as 7Jou and they re
ally’ are. It isn't really very
pleasant, Ardath.” i %
She came and sat down beside
him. “What is it, dear? I don't un
derstand”. ° : '
“l suppose,” he went on, as if
he were talking to himself, ‘“thal
we aren’'t meant to do that. We
aren’'t meant to see ourselves -as
we really are. We must have ou
illusions. We aren’t strong enough
to get along unless we wrap our.
selves and our lives up in a little
glamour. When we get to aplact
where the illusions dissolve and
the glamour falls away, we ddn'i
have anything left.” ’
He gave her a rueful smile,
“You see, my dear,” he said, “1
saw a. weakling and a_romantic
coward where I had always seen
a king . . . and I looked at’the
queen of all the earth, who wore
the. stars on her cloak and had a
wonder and a marvel in her eyes,
and saw—" ;
He took her hand and stroked
it gently. “And I saw a mortal
woman,”’ he said.
“Dearest boy—" %
“And I saw that all the things
these two people had done togetn
er—the romance they had woven
out of moonlight and laughter, the
lovely dreams they haq shared, the
moments when they had helped
each other stand above the stars
and look off through infinite
space at a flame that glowed fa
away in the sky—l saw that al
of these things were only make
believe, . things that the inorning
sun could dry up as it dries up
the dew on the grass. Ang I saw
that the path these two people fol
lowed, that was going to lead them
to a miraculous land all their own
where nothing coud hurt them,
was really going to take them to
a dull and barren desert . . .”
He stood up suddenly 'and walk
ed across the room. He stretched
his arms high, and a great cry
burst from him. .
“Ardath, Ardath, 1 have been a
blind fool and T have lost my soul!
1 thought I could throw away re
sponsibility anq a crown, and they
haunt me and curse me! ‘You can't
get away from things, in this
world—and I thought you could!”
She looked after him, with in
finte pity and tenderness in her
eves. He calmed, suddenly, and
came back and stood * before her.
“I’m going away,” he sgs.id quiet
ly. : . P '
“Where?"”
“I'm going—back to Northum
bra.” ¢
“To Northumbra?’ her mouth
opened is dismay; she touched her
cheek with the fingertips of her
right hand and lookeq up in be
wiiderment.
“yes. Back to what I ran away
from. Maybe I can get my feet on
the ground if I cap just see the
country - and the people again.
Maybhe—"
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“But wou _can't!” she cried.
“Paul, you can't go back. It's mad.
Your brother Joseph—"
“I know. I'm not going back to
the throne. I couldn’t if I wanted
to. Anyway, you can't take up a
burden once you have ' laid it
down, no. matter how much your
soul may need it. But it's my
country, and I left something be
hind it—something that I need,
something I've got to have, Ar
dath, if L am to go on living. Per
haps I can find it in the eyes of
the people who used to love me
and look ur to me. Perhaps—" |
He left it unfinished. He took
off his coat, went to the closet
and took out a' suitcase.” Then he
opened bureau drawers and began
sorting out ' little piles of cloth
ing. Ardath looked at him re
signedly.
“Are you coming back?”’ she
asked, at last. He -turned and
came over to her, taking her face
in his hands.
“My dear, I do not know. I'm
going in quest of something, dear
—something that I have to find.
If I find it—"
He paused. “Will you wait here
s aiiig little while?”
“Forever, if you want me to.”
“Not forever, Ardath. We've
talked too much of ‘forever,’ this
last year. Nothing is eternal. Ex
cept, maybe, that obligation
which lies on a man to live up to
whatever it is in him ‘that can
recognize a duty and fulfill it.”
The sloop Irene lay at the quay.
The last of her provisions bad
been stowed. She was fully equip
ped and stocked for a long voy
age . . . for a very long voyage,
indeed, rejected Paul, for was he
not setting his course for a quest
of the spirit, which might lead
to a landfall not marked on any
chart.
He paid his bill and goat aboard.
A swarthy dock-loafer unfastened
his mooring linhes and Paul coiled
and stowed them, while the little
sloop drifted slowly away from
the quay. Then he started the
auxiliary motor and the boat
moved out into the bap.
Half a mile out he caught the
off-shore breeze. He stopped his
motor and hoisted mainsail and
jib. The boat heeled over slightly
and gathered speed. Paul crouch
ed in the weather side of the
cockpit, the tiller under his arm,
and set his course for the tip of
Cape Roman, far off to the north.
The wind held, and the sloop
stood out to sea. The shore line
receded, and the brightly colored
villas, so gay with their red &¢nd
white roofs and walls, their neat
green lawns and the fringe of
golden sand at their feet, merged
with the land and became indis
tinct. Cape Roman drew necrer,
seemed to lengthen, thrusting its
long granite arm far out like a
pbarrier to human aspirations, a
challenge for men to meet and
surpass. ‘ v
By midafternoon he was abreast
of the point. He took his bearings
from the lighthouse and consulted
a chart on the seat beside him.
The coast of Northumbra lay 200
miles away. With pencil and par
allel rulers, he marked his course.
Night came, and the land had
fallen away to an indistinct
smudge on the horizon. The sea
was empty, and the breeze blew
strongly, unfalteringly, a fair wind
to bring a king back from his
rovings in far countries. And a:
the light failed, and the world
shrank to the small circle of the
boat itself, with the tiny light in
its binnacle, the flickering red and
green reflections of its running
lights on the water, and the vague
paleness of its sails rising aloft,
Paul rggained‘once more the feel
ing that he had in the first days
of his exile—the feeling that free
dom, that evanescent thing which
men found only to lose, was his
at last.
“I ought to know better than
that,” he said aloud. “There is no
such thing as freedom; or, if there
is, it's just the reverse of what
we think it is. The surest way
to lose it is to go hunting for it;
the one way to find it is to forget
all about it, to do the things you
have to do with all there is in
you, to forget yourself entirely
and trust to luck that in the pro
cess of serving something higher
than yourself freedom will come
to you.”
Jonas Coffin had not lied about
the little sloop’s qualities. In a
steady wind she would stick re
markably close to her course witk
a lashed tiller. Paul was follow
ing a course well out of the steam
er lanes; so at last he made the
tiller fast and went below, to
throw himself on a bunk and
sleep. He was up again at dawn,
jubilant at the emptiness of the
sea, the clean blueness of the sky;
and all that day he guided the
sloop across a trackless ocean.
Another night came, and the
sloop sped on. At midnight a rain
squall blew up, and Paul came on
deck for three hours, to shorten
sail and guide his craft through a
welter of flying spray and howl
ing wind. Then the squell was
left behind, and in its place there
came a gentle and steady wind
from the west. He lashed the tiller
again and went down to his bunk,
lulled by the steady, recurrent dip
and lift of the boat across the
long swells.
~ And the night wore zway to a
new dawn, as the sloop went on,
and at dawn the white sails were
touched with pink, like the prom
ise of a new day and a new worid.
Paul came on deck again, to lvik
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MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 193
Georgia WPA Ready*
To Speed Up Work i,
All County Set-Uj,
ATLANTA.— () —The Georgiy
Works Progress Adminimv;,m,”
stood ready today to specq ufi
set-ups in all counties of 'h‘
state if the general assemp), e'ne
acts an old age pension meé“urf
Within a period of from !hr;:
to four weeks from the tip, rhi
measure becomes law, the entire
state should be fully organizeq |
spokesman for the federa) l-cii,.';
agency declared. -
This compares with an Average
of from three to five montpg re
quired in other states after enact
ment of social security laws
matching those of the fedary]
government.
At ‘present, the WPA maintaing
at least one social workers in each
of the counties. Using funds left
over from the old FERA, officialg
exrect this organization to con
tinue in effect at least through
February.
Enactment of the old age pen
sion measure, an administration
bilt expected to reach the hoyg,
Monday, would enable the Wpy
to transfer these workers quickly
to the old age pension adminis.
trative set-up.
Governor E. D. Rivers has siig
he expected the first old age pen
sion checks to reach pensioners
by February 15.
A survey conducted jointly by
the WPA and the State Depart
ment of Public Welfare placed at
23,860 the number of persons 65
years or over now receiving relief
from city or ~ounty governments,
On the basis of a $lO a month
pension to each of these, the sur
vey estimated the annual cost of
old age pensions at $2,862,000,
Cities ' and counties spent $2-
414,157.06 on all types ‘of relief in
1935.
' The preSent number -of cases
(averaging three persons to the
case) . applying for 6 relief from
local governmental ‘units is, ac
cording to latest reports to the
WPA, 39,635. In November of last
year, the cities and counties ex
pended $101,609 giving financial
aid to 15,678 of these cases. An
other type of relief was in surrlus
commodities distributed to 11,797
cases, with 7,649 of those applying
receiving no assistance.
WPA rolls in Georgia include
the names of 33,100 family heads
receiving employment on various
projects. WPA expenditures were
estimated at approximately $1,200,-
000 monthly.
Oconee Heights Club
Names Many Project
Leaders at Meeting
The Oconee Heights Home Dem
onstration club met Thursday aft
ernoon at the home of Mrs.
Dewey Thurmond. The club was
opened with the Lord's Prayer.
Mrs. Hubert Moore, president of
the club, presided.
. The project leaders named for
the new year were as follows:
Home Improvement—Mrs. C. H.
Strickland.
Nutrition—Mrs. Willie Parker.
Clothing—Mrs. J. D. Fleming.
Gardening—Mrs. Ida Scoggins.
Recreation—Mrs. S. J. Poss.
Poultry—Mrs. Howard Vaugnil.
Marketing — Mrs. Dewey Thur«
mond.
Orcharding—Mrs. Hubert Moore.
Dairying — Mrs. “Harris Thur
mond. i
Scrapbook and Publicity — Mrs.
Ray Brown. N
It was decided that the unknowi
friend plan be practiced for an
other year. Names . were drawn
for the unknown friends. ’.l’ho
demonstration was in home Imn*
provement. A discussion wis led
on apprepriate pictures for tha
home. Pictures suitable for each
room in the house were shown.
Attending the meeting we't
Mrs. Reid Alexander, Mrs. H. G
Strickland, Mrs. Hubert Moora
Mrs. Ray Brown, Mrs. H. E.
Dawson, Mrs. Dewey Thurmond
Mrs. R. G. Martin, Mrs. J. D
Fleming, Mrs. Howard Vaughant
and Mrs. M. N. Whittemore.
Delicious refreshments were get
ved by the hostess. Mrs. R. G
Martin invited the . club to meeb
with her in February.
ahead for his first glimpse of the
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early light — a king without 2
country, bodne in on a strong sea*
wind from the open oceal, peering
oGt fop-ike land which .he Dbaf
deserted and which was reclaim’
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(To Be Continued).
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