The end of the house of Alard

❖

Sheila Kaye-Smith

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

THE END OF THE HOUSE OF ALARD

BY

SHEILA KAYE-SMITH

AUTHOR OF “JOANNA GODDEN,” ETC.

“We only know that the last sad squires ride slowly towards the sea,

And a new people takes the land....”

—G. K. Chesterton.

NEW YORK

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

681 FIFTH AVENUE

Copyright, 1923

BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

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First printing	Aug., 1923
Second „	Nov., 1923
Third-Sixth printing	Dec., 1923

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