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THE MAN ON THE OTHER SIDE
BY
ADA BARNETT
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1922
Copyright, 1922
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY. Inc.
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
DEDICATED
TO HIM
“Oh, I would siege the golden coasts
Of space, and climb high Heaven’s dome,
So I might see those million ghosts
Come home.”
Stella Benson
CONTENTS
The Man on the Other Side
1
CHAPTER I
Ruth Courthope Seer stood on herown doorstep and was content. Shelooked across the garden and the four-acrefield with the white may hedge boundary. Itwas all hers. Her eyes slowly followed theway of the sun. Another field, lush and green,sloped to a stream, where, if the agents hadspoken truth, dwelt trout in dim pools beneaththe willows. Field and stream, they too werehers. Good fields they were, clover thick,worthy fields for
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