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Title: If You Touch Them They Vanish

Author: Gouverneur Morris

Illustrator: Charles S. Chapman

Release Date: August 5, 2007 [EBook #22247]

Language: English

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By Gouverneur Morris

Published by
Charles Scribner's Sons

If You Touch Them They Vanish. Illustrated. net $1.00

The Penalty. Illustrated. net $1.35

It, and Other Stories. net $1.25

The Spread Eagle, and Other Stories. net $1.20

The Footprint, and Other Stories. $1.50

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[Illustration: "If I had the power," he thought, "I'd settle this region
with innocent people who have been accused of crimes."]

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IF YOU TOUCH THEM THEY VANISH

By Gouverneur Morris

With illustrations by Charles S. Chapman

New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1913

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Copyright, 1913, by Charles Scribner's Sons

Published October, 1913

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To
John Frederick Byers

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Illustrations

"If I had the power," he thought, "I'd settle this region
with innocent people who have been accused of crimes" Frontispiece

FACING
PAGE

"Only come back, darlint"--she fought against tears--"and
I'll fill the house with helpers from attic to cellar" 42

"Now how about a sawmill--right here?" 80

During the winter the Poor Boy made two excursions
southward through his valle