Marion City, on the Mississippi River, in the State of Missouri -- a village; time, 1845. La Bourboule-les-Bains, France -- a village; time, the end of June, 1894. I was in the one village in that early time; I am in the other now. These times and places are sufficiently wide apart, yet today I have the strange sense of being thrust back into that Missourian village and of reliving certain stirring days that I lived there so long ago.

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