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[Frontispiece: Tongues of flame reached hungrily for them, licking above Dan's red-gold hair, but never touching the girl.]

Dan Merrithew

By Lawrence Perry

Author of "From the Depths of Things," "Two Tramps," "The Bounder," "The Sacrifice," etc.

WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLORS BY J. V. McFALL

A. L. BURT COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT By A. C. McClurg & Co. A.D. 1910

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England

Published, March 12, 1910 Second edition, March 19, 1910

Thanks are due Mr. Arthur W. Little, president of the Pearson Publishing Company, for permission to use in this novel several incidents in the life of Dan Merrithew which originally appeared in "Pearson's Magazine."

TO LARRY