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Title: The Wind Before the Dawn

Author: Dell H. Munger

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Language: English

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THE WIND BEFORE THE DAWN

[Illustration: "THE GIRL ALSO KNELT AT HIS SIDE RENDERING SUCH
ASSISTANCE AS WAS IN HER POWER"]

THE WIND BEFORE THE DAWN

BY DELL H. MUNGER

A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers--New York

Copyright, 1912, by
Doubleday, Page & Company

All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I Castles in Spain 3

II Brushing up to go to Topeka 43

III Reforms not easy to Discuss 74

IV A cultured man 92

V Reaching hungry hands toward a symbol 115

VI "Didn't take 'em long" 131

VII Erasing her blackboard 150

VIII Cyclones 174

IX "Against her instincts, against her better
judgment, against her will" 195

X Philosophy of Elizabeth's life voiced 210

XI "Wives, submit yourselves unto your
husbands, as unto the Lord" 224

XII "Pore little woman" 266

XIII "Ennobled by the reflected story of
another's goodness and love" 291

XIV Mortgages of soul 317

XV Hugh Noland 353

XVI Revivifying fires 356

XVII Adjusting domestic to social ideals 372

XVIII The child of her body 399

XIX "Her wages, food and clothing she
must accept" 419

XX The cream-jars of her life 42