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THE PROPHETIC MARRIAGE

BY

WARWICK DEEPING

Author of

Sorrell and Son Roper’s Row Kitty, Etc.

GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS :-: :-: NEW YORK

_TO_

LIEUT.-COL. ANDREW BAXTER

in memory of the many happy days we spent together in France

THE PROPHETIC MARRIAGE

PART ONE