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Title: The Dancing Floor
Date of first publication: 1926
Author: John Buchan (1875-1940)
Date first posted: November 18 2012
Date last updated: April 11 2019
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THE DANCING FLOOR

JOHN BUCHAN

“Quisque suos patimur Manes”
VIRGIL, _Æneid_, vi. 743

THOMAS NELSON AND SONS LTD

LONDON EDINBURGH PARIS MELBOURNE
TORONTO AND NEW YORK

_First printed July 1926_
_Reprinted 1926 (eleven times), 1927 (twice)_
_Cheap edition September 1928_
_First printed in this edition September 1928_
_Reprinted 1935, 1938, 1945_

TO
HENRY NEWBOLT

An episode in this tale is taken from a short story of mine entitled
“Basilissa,” published in _Blackwood’s Magazine_ in 1914.

J. B.

[Illustration: THE ISLAND OF PLAKOS AS SEEN FROM THE NORTH]

THE DANCING FLOOR