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Title: Where the Pavement Ends

Author: John Russell

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WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDS

by

JOHN RUSSELL

Author of
In Dark Places, Etc.

[Illustration:

_A Rex Ingram--Metro Picture._

_Where the Pavement Ends._

A SCENE FROM THE PHOTOPLAY.]

"The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it,
But in another country, as he said,
Bore a bright golden flow'r...."

COMUS

[Illustration]

Publishers
Grosset & Dunlap
New York

Made in the United States of America

Copyright, 1919, by John Russell

_Published, October, 1919
Second Printing, September, 1921
Third Printing, March, 1922
Fourth Printing, November, 1922
Fifth Printing, April, 1923
Sixth Printing, August, 1923_

English Edition Published May 1921
London, Thornton Butterworth Ltd.

Printed in the United States of America

_To_

CARL BRANDT

CONTENTS

THE FOURTH MAN 9

THE LOST GOD 33

THE PASSION VINE 59

THE PRICE OF THE HEAD 91

THE SLANTED BEAM 106

THE RED MARK 121

EAST OF EASTWARD 162

JETSAM 183

THE ADVERSARY