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Title: Erik Dorn
Author: Ben Hecht
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Language: English
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ERIK DORN
by
BEN HECHT
G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1921
Copyright, 1921 by Ben Hecht
Printed in the United States of America
To
MARIE
CONTENTS
PAGE
PART I
SLEEP 1
PART II
DREAM 75
PART III
WINGS 173
PART IV
ADVENTURE 277
PART V
SILENCE 369
ERIK DORN
PART I
CHAPTER I
An old man sat in the shadows of the summer night. From a veranda chair he looked at the stars. He wore a white beard, and his eyes, grown small with age, watered continually as if he were weeping. Half-hidden under his beard his emaciated lips kept the monotonous grimace of a smile on his face.
He sat in the dark, a patient, trembling figure waiting for bedtime. His feet, though he rested them all day, grew heavy at night. Of late this weariness