New York
GROSSET & DUNLAP
Publishers

COPYRIGHT 1905
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

TO MY WIFE

CONTENTS

[Chapter I ][Chapter IV ][Chapter VII ]
[Chapter II ][Chapter V ][Chapter VIII ]
[Chapter III ][Chapter VI ][Chapter IX ]

List of Illustrations

[ Five people dressed for costume ball, four sitting,
one standing ……… Frontispiece ]

[ The handsomest girl I had set eyes upon in a month of moons. ]

[ "This is what I want. How much?" I inquired. ]

[ Turning, I beheld an exquisite Columbine. ]