Ruth of the U. S. A., by Edwin Balmer 68296 [Author: Edwin Balmer] [Illustrator: Harold H. Betts] [Link: https://www.gutenberg.org/6/8/2/9/68296] [Files: 68296-0.txt; 68296-h.htm] Thanks to Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) -- Roger