The flame-gatherers

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THE FLAME-GATHERERS
BY MARGARET HORTON POTTER
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd. 1904 All rights reserved
Copyright, 1904, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1904. Reprinted September, 1904.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
TO Gerhardt Hauptmann WITH THE PROFOUND ADMIRATION OF THE AUTHOR
“UP FROM EARTH’S CENTRE THROUGH THE SEVENTH GATE
I ROSE, AND ON THE THRONE OF SATURN SATE;
AND MANY A KNOT UNRAVELLED BY THE ROAD,
GREAT OMAR, THIS VAGUE TALE RETOLD CONTAINS