HAROLD MACGRATH
Reading edition
Author of
A SPLENDID HAZARD
THE MAN ON THE BOX
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
ANDRE CASTAIGNE
INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1911
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
TO
ROBERT HICHENS
The wild hawk to the windswept sky, The deer to the wholesome wold, And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old. —Rudyard Kipling.