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OTHER BOOKS BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON
The Main Chance Zelda Dameron The House of a Thousand Candles Poems The Port of Missing Men Rosalind at Red Gate The Little Brown Jug at Kildare The Hoosiers (Historical. In National Studies in American Letters)
JEAN MORLEY
The Lords of High Decision
By MEREDITH NICHOLSON
Illustrated by ARTHUR I. KELLER
New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1909
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY PUBLISHED, OCTOBER, 1909
TO BOWMAN ELDER AND EDWARD ROBINETTE IN REMEMBRANCE OF OUR CANOE FLIGHT THROUGH THE MAINE WOODS, WITH A BACKWARD GLANCE AT INDIAN JOE WHO FAILED TO FIND THE MOOSE
Mackinac Island, September 20, 1909.
And the Fourth Kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken.
The Book of Daniel.