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    The Cloud
    The Cloud
    The Cloud
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    The Cloud

    By Sartell Prentice

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Cloud - Sartell Prentice

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Cloud, by Sartell Prentice

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Cloud

      Author: Sartell Prentice

      Release Date: January 18, 2013 [EBook #41867]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CLOUD ***

      Produced by Greg Bergquist, Paul Clark and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      Transcriber's Note:

      Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including non-standard spelling and a misquotation of John McCrae's In Flanders Fields.

      In the paragraph starting Advertisements appear in the Berlin papers, Advertisements is a correction for Advertisments.

      THE CLOUD

      Copyright 1918 By E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

      All Rights Reserved

      Printed in the United States of America

      TO MY WIFE

      A Cloud Like a Man's Hand

      Up on the crest of Carmel a man stood watching. Before him lay the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea, to the North the curving Bay of Acre, while to the south the white surf was breaking on the reefs of Philistia.

      At the other end of the long Carmel ridge another man stood waiting. Before his eyes the great Plain of Esdraelon lay extended with the hills of Galilee to the North and the great bulk of Mt. Gilboa, faint in the summer haze, bounding the vision to the East.

      Seven times the Watcher had climbed to the Western crest of Carmel; six times he had returned to report that there was nothing to be seen, and seven times he had been bidden, Go up again; look towards the sea. Now at last he knew that his vigil was ended; something had risen above the horizon that told him his watch was past. It was a very little thing; yet it sent him speeding back along the mountain's ridge until he came again to the man who was waiting. Behold, he said, There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand. And the man who waited sent word to a King of Israel, saying, Prepare thy chariot.

      A man's hand is a very little thing, frail and weak, but we have seen a cloud like a man's hand, a man's hand clad in armor, rising up beyond the sea. The shadow of that cloud fell on Poland, and Poland died. It fell on Russia, and a great Empire went down in darkness and eclipse. It fell on Serbia, and blotted her out, on Roumania, and Roumania passed into bondage. It fell on Belgium, and Belgium cried out a little and then grew still. That shadow fell on France and even the trees withered and died. It stretched out over the sea and touched the Lusitania, and she crumpled and went down, carrying with her 120 American dead. And now that shadow falls upon our own shores and darkens the streets and homes of our towns and cities. So to-day the summons has gone forth to every American, Prepare thy chariot! Each one of us has his own—not to all of us is the same kind given. To some of us it is the Red Cross, to others it is the voice or

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