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Title: The Devil
A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience

Author: Joseph O'Brien

Commentator: Beatrice Fairfax
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Contributor: Henry W. Savage
Ferenc Molnar

Release Date: July 2, 2008 [EBook #25947]

Language: English

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[Illustration: The Devil ILLUSTRATED MOLNAR]

[Illustration: DR. MILLAR: "WHAT AN IDEAL COUPLE YOU TWO WOULD
MAKE."--Page 56. By Permission of Henry W. Savage.]

THE DEVIL

A TRAGEDY OF THE HEART AND CONSCIENCE

_Novelized by Joseph O'Brien from Henry W. Savage's great play_

BY FERENC MOLNAR

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY AMERICAN-JOURNAL-EXAMINER.

COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY.

FOREWORD

There is a great lesson for all women and men in this wonderful story.
It is one that will impress with its power. But I am glad to say that I
do not believe fully in its truth. The Devil here wins his victory, as
he has won many. But each year, as men and women get better, the
victories of Satan are fewer. Good men and good women fight against evil
and do not yield.

This tragic, heart-breaking story, by the wonderful new writer, tells
one side of the battle between good and evil that goes on in every human
heart. It has its lesson for all men and women.

It is a powerful warning against playing with fire. Its lesson, taught
in the downfall of the man and woman, is "Keep away from evil, and the
appearance of evil."

BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

THE CHARACTERS

Karl Mahler An Artist
Heinrich His Valet
Mimi His Model
Herman Hofmann A Banker
Olga Hofmann The Banker's Wife
The Devil Calling Himself Dr. Millar
Elsa Berg An Heiress

The scenes are laid in Vienna, Austria, in K