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    The Gift Bearer
    The Gift Bearer
    The Gift Bearer
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    The Gift Bearer

    By Charles Louis Fontenay

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Gift Bearer

      By CHARLES L. FONTENAY

      This could well have been Montcalm's greatest opportunity; a chance to bring mankind priceless gifts from worlds beyond. But Montcalm was a solid family man—and what about that nude statue in the park?

      It was one of those rare strokes of poetic something-or-other that the whole business occurred the morning after the stormy meeting of the Traskmore censorship board.

      Like the good general he was, Richard J. Montcalm had foreseen trouble at this meeting, for it was the boldest invasion yet into the territory of evil and laxity. His forces were marshaled. Several of the town's ministers who had been with him on other issues had balked on this one, but he had three of them present, as well as heads of several women's clubs.

      As he had anticipated, the irresponsible liberals were present to do battle, headed by red-haired Patrick

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