RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1896

Copyright, 1896,

By Charles Scribner's Sons.

*** The stories in this volume have appeared in Scribner's Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Weekly, and Young People; and "The Reporter who Made Himself King" also in a volume, the rest of which, however, addressed itself to younger readers.

University Press:

John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.


"He looked beyond, through the dying fire, into the succeeding years."