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The Iron Heel

CHAPTER I
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He devoted all the years of his manhood to it, and for it he gave his life.

It is his handiwork.

He made it.* * With all respect to Avis Everhard, it must be pointed out that Everhard was but one of many able leaders who planned the Second Revolt.

And we to-day, looking back across the centuries, can safely say that even had he lived, the Second Revolt would not have been less calamitous in its outcome than it was.
And so it is, in this anxious time of waiting, that I shall write of my husband.

There is much light that I alone of all persons living can throw upon his character, and so noble a character cannot be blazoned forth too brightly.


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