Saturday Night

January 1927

Dear Colcord:

I find these words in Deuteronomy 27,17:

“Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.”

Now, isn’t that just made to order! I could have kissed the old bard for writing those words. – And I’ll bless you for putting them into the story. I can’t tell just where they should go in, but I have a feeling that it ought to in that scene where Beret turns loose, at the close of chapter XI. 

There are several references in the Bible. Deuteronomy 19,14; Deuteronomy 27,17; Hosea, 15,10; Proverbs 22,28; Proverbs 23,10; Job 24,3.

I’ve read them all, but the one quoted above is the strongest and most effective.

I have made hardly no changes. Let it go in when you get ready with the division. Shall try to get this on the Sunday mail. 

Hastily

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