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[Illustration:

  THE SICK-CHAMBER.
  Page 131.]


IDOLS IN THE HEART.

A Tale.

by

A. L. O. E.,

Author of “The Giant-Killer,” “Pride and His Prisoners,”
etc. etc.




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 “Keep yourselves from idols.” —1 John v. 21.
 “Covetousness, which is