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Epigraph
“Oh the road to En-dor is the oldest road
And the craziest road of all!
Straight it runs to the Witch’s abode,
As it did in the days of Saul,
And nothing is changed of the sorrow in store
For such as go down on the road to En-dor!”
—Rudyard Kipling.
LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD. W.