Illustrated by May Wilson Preston

NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
MCMIX

Copyright, 1909, by
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
Published, November, 1909.

Copyright, 1908, by The Curtis Publishing Company


TO

HARRY S. MOORE


ILLUSTRATIONS

["Mrs. Gratz watched the thin man search the chicken yard for toober-chlosis bugs"][Frontispiece]
Facing
page
["He looked like a man who had lost nine hundred dollars, but he did not look like Santa Claus" ][12]