A. Maynard Barbour

AUTHOR OF "THAT MAINWARING AFFAIR," ETC.

WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY J. N. MARCHAND

"Yes, greater they who on life's battle-field, With unseen foes and fierce temptations fight" John D. Higinbotham

GROSSET & DUNLAP

Publishers New York

Copyright, 1903

By J. B. Lippincott Company

Published April, 1903

Electrotyped and Printed by

J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

TO

JOHN D. HIGINBOTHAM

"AS UNKNOWN, AND YET

WELL KNOWN"