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The Ragged Edge, by Harold MacGrath
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Title: The Ragged Edge
Author: Harold MacGrath
Release Date: April 13, 2005 [EBook #15614]
Language: English
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[Illustration: Distinctive Pictures Photoplay. The Ragged Edge. MIMI PALMERI AS RUTH EMSCHEDE, ALFRED LUNT AS HOWARD SPURLOCK.]
THE RAGGED EDGE
BY HAROLD MACGRATH
AUTHOR OF DRUMS OF JEOPARDY, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED WITH SCENES FROM THE PHOTOPLAY PRODUCED BY DISTINCTIVE PICTURES CORPORATION
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
CHAPTER I
The Master is inordinately fond of young fools. That is why they are permitted to rush in where angels fear to tread--and survive their daring! This supreme protection, this unwritten warranty to disregard all laws, occult or apparent, divine or earthly, may be attributed to the fact that none but young fools dream gloriously. For such of us as pretend to be wise--and we are but fools in a lesser degree--we know that humanity moves onward only by the impellant of fine dreams. Sometimes these dreams are si