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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
                  The Land of Promise eBook

D. TORBETT

Illustrated with Scenes from the Photoplay
A Paramount Picture
Starring Thomas Meighan

[Illustration: LoveforherhusbandisfinallyborninNora.]

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers, New York
Made in the United States of America.
Copyright, 1914, by
Edward J. Clode

THE LAND OF PROMISE

CHAPTER I

Nora opened her eyes to an unaccustomed consciousness
of well-being. She was dimly aware that it had
its origin in something deeper than mere physical
comfort; but for the moment, in that state between
sleeping and wakening, which still held her, it was
enough to find that body and mind seemed rested.

Youth was reasserting itself. And it was only
a short time ago that she had felt that never, never,
could she by any possible chance feel young again.
When one is young, one resents the reaction after any
strain not purely physical as if it were a premature
symptom of old age.

A ray of