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NOTE

The Author desires to record his gratitude to the late Mr. James Payn and to Mr. Comyns Carr, under whose fostering care these stories came into existence; and to Messrs. Macmillan and Co., and to Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co., whose enterprise found for them a first opening in life.

July, 1907.

CONTENTS

[LADY BETTY'S INDISCRETION.]

[THE SURGEON'S GUEST.]

[THE COLONEL'S BOY.]

[A GOOD MAN'S DILEMMA.]

[BAB.]