Chapter I
Dedicate This Book
All That Is Good In This Little Waif, Which Is VeryDear To Me, I Know A Just God Will Place ToHer Credit. All That Is Mean And Low AndHuman Could Never Have Been BirthedHad She Been Nigh To Guide AnEver Wayward Pen.
The Author.
The Nest, Dreamwold, August, 1906.
Friday, the Thirteenth