Transcriber’s Notes:
The author is Helen McCowen Carpenter (1839-1917).
This pamphlet is not dated, but a review of it appeared in The San Francisco Call, Volume 81, Number 163, May 12, 1897, p. 7.
Punctuation has been made consistent.
The paragraphs beginning “[One day, after ...]” and “[Here the legend ends, ...]” have been transposed.