IN A BACK ROOM
"For one shall grasp, and one resign,One drink life's rue, and one its wine,And God shall make the balance good."
—Whittier.
Elsie Kilner had a battle to fight, and it must be fought after her own fashion. It was the kind of battle which is fought every day and every hour; but the battlefield is always a silent place, and there is neither broken weapon nor crimson stain to tell us where the strife has been.
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