BY
STEPHEN McKENNA
[Illustration]
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1922
COPYRIGHT, 1922,
BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC.
Printed in U.S.A.
VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY
Binghamton and New York
To
ALFRED SUTRO
I dedicate to you this slight tribute to the memory of our friend. You
were the luckier, in knowing him the longer. I shall be more than content
if you find, in reading this book, as I found in reading his letters
again, that he has returned to us even for a moment and that a whim of
his language or an echo of his laughter has recreated the triple alliance
which he founded.
I trust also you may be long without finding out the devil that there
is in a bereavement. After love it is the one great surprise that life
preserves for us. Now I don’t think I can be astonished any more.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: _Letters_.