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Title: Everyman's Land

Author: C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

Release Date: November 14, 2006 [EBook #19806]

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[Illustration:

"I can't believe that the castle of Ham was as striking
in its untouched magnificence, as now, in the rose-red
splendour of its ruin!" -- pg. 248]

EVERYMAN'S LAND

BY C. N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON

AUTHOR OF

"_The Lightning Conductor Discovers America_,"
"_Lady Betty Across the Water_,"
"_Set in Silver_," _Etc._

_Frontispiece_

A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers New York

Published by arrangement with Doubleday, Page & Company

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
C. N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF
TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES,
INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY THE FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY

TO ALL SOLDIERS WHO HAVE FOUGHT
OR FIGHT FOR EVERYMAN'S LAND AND
EVERYMAN'S RIGHT; AND TO THOSE
WHO LOVE FRANCE

CHAPTER I

Padre, when you died, you left a message for me. You asked me to go on
writing, if I were in trouble, just as I used to write when you were on
earth. I used to "confess," and you used to advise. Also you used to
scold. _How_ you used to scold! I am going to do now what you asked, in
that message.

I shall never forget how you packed me off to school at Brighton, and
Brian to Westward Ho! the year father died and left us to you--the most
troublesome legacy a poor bachelor parson ever had! I'd made up my mind
to hate England. Brian couldn't hate anything or anybody: dreamers don't
know how to hate: and I wanted to hate you for sending us there. I
wanted to be hated and misunderstood. I disguised myself as a Leprechaun
and sulked; b