TO MY PATIENT AND KINDLY READER
Here do I make an end of this Second Book, wherein shall be foundovermuch of blood, of gloom and shadow, of misunderstanding andheartbreak engendered of my own perfervid imagination; and glad am Iand more than glad to have done with it.
And here, since the longest road must end, since after storm andtempest must come peace and heavenly calm, and because "thoughheaviness endure for a night yet joy cometh in the morning"--here do Ibegin this Third, last, and shortest Book which those enduring Readerswho have borne with and followed me thus far may see is inscribed
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_Book Three_
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