The Kingdom Round the Corner—A Novel
BOOKS BY MR. DAWSON
NOVELS
The Kingdom Round the Corner
The Garden Without Walls
Slaves of Freedom
The Raft
Last Chance River
The Road To Avalon
SHORTER STORIES
The Little House—Illustrations by Stella Langdale
The Seventh Christmas—Illustrations by Edmund Dulac
The Unknown Country—Illustrations by W.C. Rice
WAR BOOKS
Carry On: Letters in War-Time
The Glory of the Trenches
Out To Win: the Story of America in France
Living Bayonets: a Record of the Last Push
The Test of Scarlet: a Romance of Reality
POEMS
Florence on a Certain Night
The Worker and Other Poems
"I'm sorry," Tabs apologized. "I didn't mean anythingunkind."(Page 33)
The Kingdom Round the Corner—A Novel
By CONINGSBY DAWSON
Illustrated by W.D. Stevens
"To every man the woman whom he loves is as Mother Earth was to herlegendary son: he has but to kneel and kiss her breast to know thathe is strong again."—Michelet
NEW YORK
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
M C M X X I
Copyright, 1921, by Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, New York.—Allrights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages,including that of the Scandinavian
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
An Altered World
CHAPTER II
Retrievers of Youth
CHAPTER III
All Sorts of Kingdoms
CHAPTER IV
The Complications of Maisie
CHAPTER V
The Air of Conquest
CHAPTER VI
Trampled Roses
CHAPTER VII
Some People Find Their Kingdoms