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Claire, by Leslie Burton Blades
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Title: Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author
Author: Leslie Burton Blades
Release Date: October 15, 2009 [EBook #30261]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Claire
by Leslie Burton Blades
THE BLIND LOVE OF A BLIND HERO
BY A BLIND AUTHOR
[Transcriber's Note: This novel was originally serialized in four installments in All-Story Weekly magazine from October 5, 1918, to October 26, 1918. The original breaks in the serial have been retained, but summaries of previous events preceding the second and third installments have been moved to the end of this e-book. The Table of Contents which follows the introduction was created for this electronic edition.]
On the editorial page of last week's ALL-STORY WEEKLY we announced a new serial by a new author. "Claire" is a story of such subtle insight, of so compassionate an understanding of human nature, and of so honest an attack on the eternal problem of love and living, that it can well afford to take its chances on its own merits. But Lawrence Gordon, the blind hero of the triangle tragedy, which runs its inevitable course in the