Spring Street / A Story of Los Angeles

Transcriber's Note: Some words are missing on Page 112.
Published by the Author by Special Permission of LOS ANGELES EVENING HERALD In Which the Story First Appeared in Serial Form
TIMES-MIRROR PRESS Los Angeles, Calif. 1922
COPYRIGHT, 1922 BY EVENING HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
One day the editor stopped beside my desk and told me he wanted me to write a novel about Los Angeles to appear in serial form. Seven weeks later Spring Street was on his desk. I was assigned to write it as I would have been assigned as a reporter to cover a big story.
Writing a novel to appear as a serial in a newspaper is vastly different from writing one for publication in book form. Spring Street was written primarily as a serial and is offered now as a book in response to requests by friends and from readers of The Evening Herald.
Let me say that I lay no claim to being a novelist because I wrote Spring Street. I have sufficient pride in my profession to desire to be known only as a reporter.
There are many to whom I owe thanks for their help and encouragement. Especially am I indebted to Dr. Frank F. Barham, publisher of The Evening Herald, and Mr. Edwin R. Collins, Mr. John B. T. Campbell and Mr. Wesley M. Barr, its editors.
The Author.

His father was dying.
John Gallant paced the narrow sun-baked lawn between the porch of his home and the street.