THE DARK TOWER

BY PHYLLIS BOTTOME

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. H. GARDNER SOPER

NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1916

Copyright, 1916, by THE CENTURY CO.

Published, September, 1916

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Dauntless the slughorn to my lips I set, and blew “Child Roland to the dark tower came.”

— Robert Browning

To W. W. D. H.

“God forbid that I should do this thing.

If our time be come, let us die manfully for our brethren

And let us not stain our honour.”

I Maccabees, ix, 10.

PART I