"THE DEBATABLE LAND"
Reading edition
A Novel By Arthur Colton
New York and London Harper & Brothers Publishers 1901
Copyright, 1901, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
TO
R.H. LOINES
"For the Debatable Land, being that portion of ground which, lying between two countries, belongeth to neither, does of all regions abound most in disturbance, adventures, even legends, and, as men say, in warlocks and witches. Thus the astute German, Hermantius, significantly calleth the region of youth a debatable land, and seeketh to illustrate time by space."—The Dictionary of Devices.