Dear Aunt Verena,—I hope you are better. I told you some time ago that we were preparing a great surprise for you to cheer you up on your bed of sickness and pain. Well, it is now ready and I send the first number. If you get well quickly there will never be another. It is called The Beguiler and has been written for you chiefly by the girls here. I am the editor. My great friend Mabel Beresford copied it all out. Doesn’t she write beautifully? I hope you will like it. Roy has read it and he says it ought to deliver the goods.—Your loving
Evangeline
No. 1. May, 1919
THE BEGUILER
OR
THE INVALID’S FRIEND
A Miscellany
COMPILED BY
EVANGELINE BARRANCE
ASSISTED BY A BUNCH OF FLOWERS