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This book presents the Everhard Manuscript, a personal account written by Avis Everhard regarding the revolutionary activities of her husband, Ernest Everhard. The narrative details the turbulent period between 1912 and 1932, capturing the psychology and social conditions of the era through the perspective of those involved in the movement.

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CHAPTER XI. THE GREAT ADVENTURE

Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh The whole world leaps to my will, And the unslaked thirst of an Eden cursed Shall harrow the earth for its fill. Almighty God, when I drain life’s glass Of all its rainbow gleams, The hapless plight of eternal night Shall be none too long for my dreams. “The man you drove from Eden’s grove Was I, my Lord, was I, And I shall be there when the earth and the air Are rent from sea to sky; For it is my world, my gorgeous world, The world of my dear delight, From the brightest gleam of the Arctic stream To the dusk of my own love-night.”

Ernest always overworked. His wonderful constitution kept him up; but even that constitution could not keep the tired look out of his eyes. His dear, tired eyes! He never slept more than four and one-half hours a night; yet he never found time to do all the work he wanted to do. He never ceased from his activities as a propagandist, and was always

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