Front matter
Reading edition
AUTHOR OF “THE LEAVENWORTH CASE,” “A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE,” ETC.
NEW YORK G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS 27 & 29 West 23D Street
1881
Copyright, 1881, by G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
TO MY FATHER I DEDICATE THIS BOOK AS EXPRESSING SOME OF THE PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE AND MERCY WHICH, BY PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE, HE HAS INSTILLED INTO MY BREAST FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD.
New York, April, 1881.
“When all else fails love saves”