MANY FRONTS
LEWIS R. FREEMAN
MANY FRONTS
MANY FRONTS
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1918
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS
My grateful acknowledgments are due to the several magazines in whichthese stories and sketches have appeared:—The Cornhill Magazine,Land and Water, and The World’s Work in England; and in America,The Atlantic Monthly, The World’s Work, and The Outlook.
October, 1918.
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THE FIGHT FOR THE GARDEN OF EDEN
I
I had known F—— through years of hunting and sports in India, butnever until the night that our old British-India coaster lay off theShat-el-Arab bar waiting for the turn of the tide to run up toBassorah, did I hear him speak of the things that were really next hisheart. Then it was that I was vouchsafed transient vision of the outerstrands of the previsionary web England was weaving beyond the marchesof India against events to come. I will give his story, as nearly as Ican remember, in his own words.
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