title: Guardian of the Veil: A Three-Dimensional Tale
author: Gregory Spencer
description: <b>Dr. Gregory Spencer</b> is professor of communication studies at Westmont College in Southern California. He specializes in rhetorical theory and criticism, religious rhetoric, and media ethics. Dr. Spencer's teaching has been noted for its creativity. According to one former student, "His words do not merely paint pictures, they provide eyes to see the pictures that have always been before us. In this sense, his classroomis no less than a portal into a transformed world."
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  The Threefold Destiny
  
  
  PREFACE.  
    
  THE THREEFOLD DESTINY. A FAIRY LEGEND. BY ASHLEY
  
  
  ALLEN ROYCE.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Threefold Destiny: A Fairy Legend
  
  
  ### Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
  
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  * PREFACE. 
  
  
  * THE THREEFOLD DESTINY. A FAIRY LEGEND. BY ASHLEY 
  
  
  ALLEN ROYCE.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
      
  
  DEDICATED TO
  
  
  CHARLES GRAFF, ESQ.
  
  
  AS A SMALL TOKEN OF THE COMPILER'S ESTEEM
  
  
  ### PREFACE.
  
  
  In preparing this work for the press, the chief object of the editor
  
  
  has been to provide a fund of amusing, entertaining and instructive
  
  
  tales for a leisure hour. He has extracted from various popular English
  
  
  and American authors, such portions as should, when united, form a work
  
  
  of interest and amusement. Endeavoring to suit all tastes, and by
  
  
  frequent transitions from grave to gay, to render it acceptable both to
  
  
  the pensive and cheerful disposition. He may safe