Front matter
Reading edition
BY
GEORGE GIBBS
AUTHOR OF
THE YELLOW DOVE, SACKCLOTH AND SCARLET, THE BOLTED DOOR, Etc.
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1903, by Harper & Brothers
Copyright, 1903, by J. B. Lippincott Company
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED TO
M. H. G.
THE “NORSE GODDESS”
with all my heart and best endeavors in tender appreciation of those sympathies and encouragements which make a pleasure of labor, and life a fruition of every hope and dream