Copyright, 1905,
By The Century Company.
Copyright, 1905,
By The Bobbs Merrill Company.
Copyright, 1906,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published June, 1906
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
"It's a brand-new one, fer the price-tag's still hangin' on the back."
PREFATORY NOTE
"Mrs. Lathrop's Love Affair" appeared in "The Century Magazine" in 1905. "The Wolf at Susan's Door" was published in "The Reader's Magazine" in the early part of the present year, and "Old Man Ely's Proposal" is printed for the first time in this volume. The original version of "A Very Superior Man" appeared in "The Red Book."