The Emperor of Elam, and other stories

CONSTANTINOPLE OLD AND NEW STAMBOUL NIGHTS PERSIAN MINIATURES
THE EMPEROR OF ELAM AND OTHER STORIES
BY H. G. DWIGHT
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1920
Copyright, 1908, 1920, by Doubleday, Page & Company
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
Copyright, 1903, 1904, by Charles Scribner’s Sons Copyright, 1904, by The Associated Sunday Magazines Copyright, 1904, 1905, by Dodd, Mead & Company, and George H. Doran Company Copyright, 1905, by The Outlook Company Copyright, 1905, 1906, by Smart Set Company, Inc. Copyright, 1909, by The Sunset Magazine Copyright, 1916, 1917, 1918, by The Century Company Copyright, 1918, by Edward J. O’Brien Copyright, 1918, by Small, Maynard & Company, Inc.
TO J. R. M. TAYLOR COLONEL, UNITED STATES ARMY, HISTORIAN OF THE PHILIPPINES: ARCH IRONIST, EX-EDITOR OF “THE INFANTRY JOURNAL,” LATE LIBRARIAN OF THE ARMY WAR COLLEGE, WASHINGTON, SOMETIME MILITARY ATTACHÉ AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY, CONSTANTINOPLE, MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, INSTIGATOR OF OR ACCOMPLICE IN TOO MANY OTHER ACTIVITIES HERE TO BE NAMED; WHO YET FOUND TIME TO INVENT ONE, NOR THE LEAST SEDUCTIVE, OF THE ENSUING FABLES, AND WHO COURTEOUSLY PUT IN THE WAY OF HIS COLLABORATOR TWO OF THE MOST EXASPERATING AND PROFITABLE EXPERIENCES OF A CAREER BY NO MEANS BARREN OF SUCH ACCIDENTS:
WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF HIS OBLIGED AND ADMIRING FRIEND THE AUTHOR.
Of the stories in this collection, three originally appeared in The Century Magazine (“Like Michael,” copyright, 1916; “The Emperor of Elam,” copyright, 1917; “The Emerald of Tamerlane,” copyright, 1918), two each in The Bookman (“Unto the Day,” copyright, 1904; “Studio Smoke,” copyright, 1905), in Scribner’s Magazine (“The Bathers,” copyright, 1903; “Henrietta Stackpole Rediviva ,” copyright, 1904), and in The Smart Set (“Susannah and the Elder,” copyright, 1905; “The Undoing of Mrs. Derwall,” copyright, 1906), and one each in The Associated Sunday Magazines (“Martha Waring’s Elopement,” copyright, 1904), in The Outlook (“The Pagan,” copyright, 1905), in Short Stories (“Castello Montughi,” copyright, 1908), and in The Sunset Magazine (“The Bald Spot,” copyright, 1909).