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“When a woman, her past lover, her present lover and her husband are caught in the same house and quarantined for something like a fortnight, the reader will acknowledge that the situation is one requiring literary tact. After reading ‘The Chalk Line’ he will concede that Anne Warwick has done more with her material than he expected ... a story that is distinctly good.”—Chicago Evening Post
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—New York Evening Post.
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—Chicago Evening Post.
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Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
All the subleties=> All the subtleties {pg 24}
man would be a tryant=> man would be a tyrant {pg 37}