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DAWSON NOVELS The Kingdom Round the Corner The Garden Without Walls Slaves of Freedom The Raft Last Chance River The Road To Avalon SHORTER STORIES The Little House—Illustrations by Stella Langdale The Seventh Christmas—Illustrations by Edmund Dulac The Unknown Country—Illustrations by W.C. Rice WAR BOOKS Carry On: Letters in War-Time The Glory of the Trenches Out To Win: the Story of America in France Living Bayonets: a Record of the Last Push The Test of Scarlet: a Romance of Reality POEMS Florence on a Certain Night The Worker and Other Poems "I'm sorry," Tabs apologized. "I didn't mean anything unkind."(Page 33) The Kingdom Round the Corner—A Novel By CONINGSBY DAWSON Illustrated by W.D. Stevens "To every man the woman whom he loves is as Mother Earth was to her legendary son: he has but to kneel and kiss her breast to know that he is strong again."—Michelet NEW YORK Cosmopolitan Book Corporation M C M X X I Copyright, 1921, by Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, New York.—All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including that of the Scandinavian Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS CHAPTER I An Altered World CHAPTER II Retrievers of Youth CHAPTER III All Sorts of Kingdoms CHAPTER IV The Complications of Maisie CHAPTER V The Air of Conquest CHAPTER VI Trampled Roses CHAPTER VII Some People Find Their Kingdoms CHAPTER VIII Round the Corner The Illustrations by W.D. Stevens "I'm sorry," Tabs apologized. "I didn't mean anything unkind." (Page 33) Tabs extended his hand. Braithwaite made no motion to take it. "Mrs. Lockwood, why can't you let Adair alone?" 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