NEW YORK
ALFRED·A·KNOPF
1922


COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.
Published, February, 1922
Set up and electrotyped by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N.Y.
Paper furnished by S. D. Warren & Co., Boston, Mass.
Printed and bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


To
M. A. A. B.


CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I Manufacture of a Personage, [9]
II He Progresses, [23]
III Full Bloom, [47]
IV Penalties, [78]
V Margot, [104]
VI Gurdy, [135]
VII “Todgers Intrudes,” [170]
VIII Cosmo Rand, [192]
IX Bubble, [214]
X The Idolater, [250]
XI The Walling, [272]