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Within the Capes

    By
    HOWARD PYLE

    New York
    International Association of Newspapers and Authors
    1901




    COPYRIGHT, 1885,
    BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS.


    NORTH RIVER BINDERY CO.
    PRINTERS AND BINDERS
    NEW YORK




        TO HIS FRIEND

     ALFRED LEIGHTON HOWE

    THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

             BY

        THE AUTHOR




WITHIN THE CAPES.




CHAPTER I.


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