BY
D. ALCOCK
Author of "The Spanish Brothers" "Crushed, yet Conquering"
"Dr. Adrian" etc
London
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
27 PATERNOSTER ROW
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MDCCCXCVII
Butler & Tanner,
The Selwood Printing Works,
Frome, and London.
PREFACE
Many a tale of blood and tears has come to us of late from far Euphrates, and from the regions round about. It is not so much the aim of the following pages to tell these over again as to show the light that, even there, shines through the darkness. "I do set My bow in the cloud" is true of the densest, most awful cloud of human misery. As in the early ages of Christianity, "what little child, what tender woman" was there