If he has turned against those near and dear to him—if he has preferred to give prodigally of gold to strangers, while at the same time forgetting his own obligations—I am not the one to point the finger of rebuke at his eccentricities.
For this reason, the narrative within these covers is confined to the facts relating to the career of Swiftwater Bill—a character worthy of the pen of a Dickens or a Dumas—with his faults and his virtues impartially portrayed as best I can do.
IOLA BEEBE,
Mother-in-law of Swiftwater Bill.
MRS. IOLA BEEBE,
Mother-in-law of Swiftwater Bill.
[CHAPTER I.]
