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Title: The Way of the Gods

Author: John Luther Long

Release Date: September 3, 2010 [EBook #33616]

Language: English

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THE WAY OF THE GODS

_By_ JOHN LUTHER LONG

_Author of_ "MADAME BUTTERFLY"
"MISS CHERRY BLOSSOM" "THE FOX WOMAN"
"HEIMWEH" _Etc._ * * * *

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
_NEW YORK MCMVI_
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

COPYRIGHT, 1906,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1906.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass.,
U.S.A.

TO HIM WHO OWNS
HIS JOY BECAUSE
HE HAS BOUGHT
IT WITH SORROW--OR
WILL * * * * * *

PAGE

_TADAIMA!_ (Wait a moment!), 3

CONTENTS

PAGE

_IMPRIMIS_ 13

I Nippon Denji 19

II The Flying of the August Carp 29

III A Good Lie 37

IV Yet--a Lie Loosens Fealty 47

V Yamato Damashii 55

VI Yone 65

VII Ping-Yang 75

VIII Dream-of-a-Star 81

IX Isonna 93

X The Task of Jizo 101

XI Angel of the Earth-Heaven 109

XII Impertinent Isonna 119

XIII Only to Take Her 129

XIV The Going of the Soldier 137

XV But What could He Do? 143