Front matter
Reading edition
G.P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press
To My Nephew
Geoffrey Frederick Burghard
This Book Is Affectionately Dedicated
THE AUTHOR TO THE READER
The story of the Sachigo wood-pulp mills, told in this book, is entirely a work of imagination. But as I have had to draw very largely on my knowledge of the wood-pulp trade of Eastern Canada, and the conditions under which it is carried on, I desire it to be clearly understood that this story contains no portraiture of any person or persons, living or dead, and contains no representation of any business organisation connected with the trade.