THE CHALICE OF COURAGE A Romance of Colorado BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY Author of "The Island of Regeneration," "The Better Man," "Hearts and the Highway," "As the Sparks Fly Upward," etc., etc. With Illustrations By HARRISON FISHER and J. N. MARCHAND NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1912 Copyright, 1911 By W. G. CHAPMAN Copyright, 1911 By Copyright, 1912 By DODD, MEAD & COMPANY Copyright, 1912 By Published, February, 1912 To My Beloved Friend JOHN B. WALKER, JR. Great-hearted, Great-souled, High-spirited Man of Colorado. "Leave me to myself, I would not take the finest, noblest man on earth—" PREFACE Prefaces, like much study, are a weariness to the flesh; to some people, not to me. I can conceive of no literary proposition more attractive than the opportunity to write unlimited prefaces. Let me write the preface and I care not who writes the book. Unfortunately for my desires, I can only be prefatory in the case of my own. Happily my own are sufficiently numerous to afford me some scope in the indulgence of this passion for forewords. I suppose no one ever sat down to write a preface until after he had written the book. It is like the final pat that the fond parent gives to the child
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