“If it does, then this war wasn’t worth while. . . . And it’s our business to make it worth while,” he answered.

CHAPTER THREE

THE DAWNING OF MORN

“ ‘Rise up, rise up, thou Satan, upon the Earth to go,

And prove the peace of Dives if it be good or no;

For all that he hath planned

We deliver to thy hand,

As thy skill shall serve to break it or bring low.’ ”

Rudyard Kipling: The Peace of Dives.

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