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Title: The Kingdom Round the Corner
A Novel

Author: Coningsby Dawson

Release Date: June 5, 2008 [EBook #25702]

Language: English

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The Kingdom Round the Corner--_A Novel_

BOOKS BY MR. 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

[Illustration:]"_I'm sorry," Tabs apologized. "I didn't mean anything
unkind._"

_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
PAGE
AN ALTERED WORLD 7

CHAPTER II

RETRIEVERS OF YOUTH 54

CHAPTER III

ALL SORTS OF KINGDOMS 94

CHAPTER IV

THE COMPLICATIONS OF MAISIE 134