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Title: The Day of the Beast

Author: Zane Grey

Release Date: April 21, 2005 [EBook #15673]

Language: English

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THE DAY OF THE BEAST

BY

ZANE GREY

AUTHOR OF TO THE LAST MAN,
THE HERITAGE OF THE DESERT,
THE MYSTERIOUS RIDER, ETC.

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Made in the United States of America

THE DAY OF THE BEAST

1922
By Zane Grey
Printed in the U.S.A.

THE DAY OF THE BEAST

DEDICATION

Herein is embodied my tribute to the American
men who gave themselves to the service in the great
war, and my sleepless and eternal gratitude for
what they did for me.

ZANE GREY.

THE DAY OF THE BEAST

CHAPTER I

His native land! Home!

The ship glided slowly up the Narrows; and from its deck Daren Lane
saw the noble black outline of the Statue of Liberty limned against
the clear gold of sunset. A familiar old pang in his breast--longing
and homesickness and agony, together with the physical burn of gassed
lungs--seemed to swell into a profound overwhelming emotion.

"My own--my native land!" he whispered, striving to wipe the dimness
from his eyes. Was it only two years or twenty since he had left his
country to go to war? A sense of strangeness dawned upon him. His
home-coming, so ceaselessly dreamed of by night and longed for by day,
was not going to be what his hopes had created. But at that moment his
joy was too great to harbor s