THE PHILISTINES

BY

ARLO BATES







The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
_All's Well that Ends Well_; iv.--3




DEDICATION.


To my three friends who, by generously acting as amanuenses,
have made it possible that the book should be finished, I take
pleasure in gratefully dedicating




"This is no square temple to the gate of which thou canst
arrive precipitately; this is no mosque to which thou canst come