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                           The Lonely Warrior

                         By CLAUDE C. WASHBURN


                             [Illustration]


                           A. L. BURT COMPANY
                     Publishers           New York

        Published by arrangement with Harcourt, Brace & Company
                          Printed in U. S. A.




                          COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
                   HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.

                        PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.




                           The Lonely Warrior




                               _PROLOGUE_


                                   1

On the afternoon of the fifth day of November, 1914, Edward Carroll was
sitting as usual in his pleasant inner office, the windows of which
looked down upon the middle-western city where Mr. Carroll had lived for
forty of his fifty-six years. B