NEW YORK · FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY · PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1903, 1904,

By Frank Leslie Publishing House

Copyright, 1904,

By Frederick A. Stokes Company

This edition published in August, 1904

This volume is dedicated to my brave little wife, who endured with heroism conditions that, while not unbearable for me, were superlative hardships for a woman of delicacy and refinement.

B. B.

Clay Place, Mamaroneck,