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OVERSHADOWED.

A Novel.

by

SUTTON E. GRIGGS

Author of "Imperium in Imperio."







Nashville, Tenn.:
The Orion Publishing Co.
1901.

Copyrighted
Sutton E. Griggs
1901.




                     DEDICATION.

                   To the Memory of
                       ALBERTA,
        Who, in the absence of this her oldest
    brother, crossed over the dark stream, smiling
          as she went, this volume is most
            affectionately dedicated by

    _THE AUTHOR._




AUTHOR'S PREFACE.


The task assigned to the <DW64>s of the United States is unique in the
history of mankind.

He whose grandfather was a savage and whose father was a slave has been
bidden to participate in a highly complex civilization on terms of
equality with the most cultured, aggressive and virile type of all
times, the Anglo-Saxon.

The stupendous character of the task is apparent when it is called to
mind that the civilization in which they are to work out their
respective destinies is fitted to the nature of the Anglo-Saxon, because
he evolved it; while, on the other hand, the nature of the <DW64> _must
be fitted to the civilization_, thus necessitating the casting aside of
all that he had evolved.

This attempt on the part of the infant child of modern civilization to
keep pace with the hale and hearty parent thereof, has served to
contribute its quota of tragedies to the countless myriads that have
been enacted under the sun, since the Cosmic forces first broke forth
out of night into light, and began their upward, sightless, or shall we
rather say, full visioned tread in quest of the "music of the spheres"
and the higher purposes of the GREAT BEYOND.

What part in the great final programme these Cosmic forces have assigned
to the attempt of the