Born Again

<p>DEDICATION</p> <p>One day, not many years ago, while walking along a street in Detroit, Michigan, I was stopped by a ragged and forlorn beggar, with the request for a few cents to buy something to eat.</p> <p>I gave him a dime and walking on a few paces stopped to observe his following movements. Contrary to my supposition that perhaps he would enter a saloon and buy whiskey he went as fast as his weary legs would carry him in a straight course toward a restaurant on the opposite side of the street.</p> <p>As he was about to enter the place his attention was attracted by a more pitiable wretch than himself standing outside who had but one leg, was partly blind, and whose nose was almost eaten off by disease.</p> <p>He paused for a moment and looked sympathetically at the crippled beggar and then started again toward the door of the restaurant, but before entering he stopped once more to take another look, and after a few moments' hesitation he deliberately turned about, handed the other fellow the dime and walked away without feeding himself.</p> <p>Of all the heroic deeds I have ever witnessed, I recollect none quite so grand and noble as this act, for notwithstanding this poor beggar may have been heir to every other weakness a human being could possibly contract, still he contained that spark of unselfish love for his fellow beings, without which no man is more than a mere brute, and for that reason I respectfully dedicate this work to his memory.</p> <p>ALFRED WILLIAM LAWSON.</p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter1">CHAPTER I</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter2">CHAPTER II</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter3">CHAPTER III</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter4">CHAPTER IV</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter5">CHAPTER V</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter6">CHAPTER VI</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter7">CHAPTER VII</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter8">CHAPTER VIII</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter9">CHAPTER IX</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter10">CHAPTER X</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter11">CHAPTER XI</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter12">CHAPTER XII</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter13">CHAPTER XIII</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter14">CHAPTER XIV</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter15">CHAPTER XV</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter16">CHAPTER XVI</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter17">CHAPTER XVII</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter18">CHAPTER XVIII</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter19">CHAPTER XIX</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter20">CHAPTER XX</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter21">CHAPTER XXI</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter22">CHAPTER XXII</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter23">CHAPTER XXIII</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter24">CHAPTER XXIV</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter25">CHAPTER XXV</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter26">CHAPTER XXVI</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter27">CHAPTER XXVII</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter28">CHAPTER XXVIII</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter29">CHAPTER XXIX</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter30">CHAPTER XXX</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter31">CHAPTER XXXI</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter32">CHAPTER XXXII</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#chapter33">CHAPTER XXXIII</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#epilogue">EPILOGUE</SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#stray">STRAY SHOTS</SPAN></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />