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“OUR CONTINENT” LIBRARY.

D U S T:
A NOVEL

BY
Julian Hawthorne,
Author of “Bressant,” “Sebastian Strome,” “Idolatry,”
“Garth,” etc.

NEW YORK:
FORDS, HOWARD, & HULBERT
1883

COPYRIGHT, 1882,
By Julian Hawthorne.
All rights reserved.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Julian Hawthorne (Portrait),[Frontispiece.]
“I am a Bit of a Surgeon; Let me Look at Your Arm,”[14]
“Pulling Themselves Together and Discussing the Magnitude of Their Disaster,”[86]
“I Tied the Card to the Gate Myself. Nobody can Fail to See it,”[134]

“Only the Actions of the Just
Smell Sweet and Blossom in the Dust.”