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Comrades

[Illustration]

Thomas Dixon JR.




    [Illustration: NORMAN CLASPED HER IN HIS ARMS.]




  COMRADES

  _A STORY OF SOCIAL ADVENTURE
  IN CALIFORNIA_

  BY
  THOMAS DIXON, Jr.

  Illustrated by
  C.D. WILLIAMS


  [Illustration]


  GROSSET & DUNLAP
  Publishers  ::  New York




  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
  INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

  COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THOMAS DIXON, JR.
  PUBLISHED, JANUARY, 1909




  DEDICATED TO
  THE DEAREST LITTLE
  GIRL IN THE WORLD, MY DAUGHTER
  LOUISE




CONTENTS


CHAPTER                                                      PAGE

       I. The Woman in Red                                      3

      II. A New Joan of Arc                                    19

     III. The Birth of a Man                                   31

      IV. Among the Shadows                                    37

       V. The Island of