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Title: Black Oxen

Author: Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Release Date: May 20, 2008 [eBook #25542]

Language: English

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BLACK OXEN

by

GERTRUDE ATHERTON

Author of
"_Sisters-in-Law_"

The years like Great Black Oxen tread the world
And God the herdsman goads them on behind.
--_W. B. Yeats._

[Frontispiece: Their tete-e-tete ended, Clavering (Conway Tearle) was
about to make his departure when Judge Trent (Tom Guise), who held
buried in his mind the secret of the charming Madame Zattiany's
(Corinne Griffith), entered. (_Screen version of "The Black Oxen."_)]

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers -------- New York
Published by arrangement with Boni and Liveright

Printed in U. S. A.

Copyright, 1923, by
Gertrude Atherton

Printed in the United States of America

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Their tete-e-tete ended, Clavering (Conway Tearle) was about to make
his departure when Judge Trent (Tom Guise), who held buried in his mind
the secret of the charming Madame Zattiany's (Corinne Griffith),
entered. (_Screen version of "The Black Oxen."_) . . . . _Frontispiece_

Returning home one night Clavering (Conway Tearle) found Janet
Oglethorpe (Clara Bow), daughter of his old friend, in a
semi-intoxicated condition. (_Screen version of "The Black Oxen."_)

It took a lot of self possession and grit for Zattiany (Corinne
Griffith) and Clavering (Conway Tearle) to hide their feelings when she
alighted to go to the ship which was to return her to Europe. (_Screen