[45] I had not cared to send him the story as thus docked and rechristened in its serial shape.
[46] Austin Strong, on his way to school in California.
[47] By Émile Zola.
[48] The reference is to the writer’s maternal cousin, Mr. Graham Balfour (Samoicè, “Pelema”), who during these months and again later was an inmate of the home at Vailima: see above, p. 223.
[49] Robert MacQueen, Lord Braxfield, the “Hanging Judge,” (1722-1799). This historical personage furnished the conception of the chief character, but by no means the details or incidents of the story, which is indeed dated some years after his death.
[50] The allusion is to Tess: a book R. L. S. did not like.
[51] A character in The Wrecker.
[52] Exactly what in the end actually happened.
[53] Austin Strong.
[54] This tale was withheld from the volume accordingly.