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                              TALES OF A
                             CRUEL COUNTRY





                              TALES OF A
                             CRUEL COUNTRY

                                  BY
                           GERALD CUMBERLAND

                    Author of “Set Down in Malice”


                       [Illustration: colophon]


                               NEW YORK
                              BRENTANO’S
                              PUBLISHERS





                          Copyright, 1919, by
                              BRENTANO’S

                         _All rights reserved_


                        PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.





                                  TO
                         FREDERICK NOEL BYRON


     _Then came sudden alarms; hurryings to and fro; trepidat