Chapter 1

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For he who sins a second time Wakes a dead soul to pain, And draws it from its spotted shroud, And makes it bleed again, And makes it bleed great gouts of blood, And makes it bleed in vain.

--_The Ballad of Reading Gaol._

Copyright, 1916, BY FRANK HARRIS