Transcribed from the 1903 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk

THE DISENTANGLERS
by Andrew Lang

with illustrations by H. J. Ford

Second Impression

Longmans, Green, and Co.
39 Paternoster Row, London
New York and Bombay
1903

TO HERBERT HILLS, Esq.
These Studies
OF LIFE AND CHARACTER
ARE DEDICATED

PREFACE

It has been suggested to the Author that the incident of the Berbalangs, in The Adventure of the Fair American, is rather improbable. He can only refer the sceptical to the perfectly genuine authorities cited in his footnotes.

I. THE GREAT IDEA