AUTHOR OF
"THE INHERITANCE," "THE MEMOIRS OF A BABY,"
"THE MADNESS OF PHILIP," ETC.

NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1913

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY
JOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON
Copyright, 1908, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Copyright, 1909, 1910, by Harper and Brothers.
Copyright, 1911, 1913, by the Crowell Publishing Company.
Copyright, 1911, by the Curtis Publishing Company.
Printed in the United States of America

TO
M. A. T.
WHO WATCHED MANY OF
THESE STORIES IN THE MAKING
J. D. B.