Front matter
Reading edition
“Into the death-pit Lefort rode.”
THE GARDEN OF SWORDS
By Max Pemberton
Author of “Kronstadt,” “The Iron Pirate,” etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY STANLEY L. WOOD
NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK : 1902
Copyright, 1898
By Max Pemberton
Sickle and reaper and harvest of sorrow; Heavy the wagons that gather the dead; Let there be dirge for the sun of the morrow! God is the gleaner on fields ye have fled!