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THE VALLEY OF THE
SQUINTING WINDOWS

BY
BRINSLEY MACNAMARA

[Illustration: Logo]

NEW YORK
BRENTANO'S
1920




Copyright, 1919, by
BRENTANO'S

_All rights reserved_




To
ONE WHO WAITED
FOR THIS STORY


_And the Lord spake unto Moses saying_:

_Speak unto Aaron saying whosoever he be of thy seed in their
generations that hath any blemish let him not approach to offer the
bread of his God._

LEVITICUS xxi. 16-17.




PREFATORY NOTE


In the parlor, as they call it, or bes