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The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
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19. THE RAINBOW SIGN
20. LIFE'S NEW LANGUAGE
21. ISRAEL IN PRISON
22. HOW NAOMI TURNED MUSLIMA
23. ISRAEL'S RETURN FROM PRISON
24. THE ENTRY OF THE SULTAN
25. THE COMING OF THE MAHDI
26. ALI'S RETURN TO TETUAN
27. THE FALL OF BEN ABOO
28. "AT ALLAH-U-KABAR"




PREFACE


_Within sight of an English port, and within hail of English ships as
they pass on to our empire in the East, there is a land where the ways
of life are the same to-day as they were a thousand years ago; a land
wherein government is oppression, wherein law is tyranny, wherein
justice is bought and sold, wherein it is a terror to be rich and a
danger to be poor, wherein man may still be the slave of man, and women
is no more than a creature of lust--a reproach to Europe, a disgrace to
the century, an outrage on humanity, a blight on religion! That land is
Morocco!_

_This is a story of Morocco in the last years of the Sultan Abd
er-Rahman. The ashes of that tyrant are cold, and his grandson sits in
his place; but men who earned his displeasure linger yet in his noisome
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