PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

COPYRIGHT, 1921,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and printed. Published June, 1921.

Press of

J. J. Little & Ives Company

New York, U. S. A.

To YOÉ: my sister, and always my greatest friend.

“_Provinces twain o’er the land held sway, and the country was ruled

by twain,

I made the laws, as King, but you, as Premier, revoked them again.

You were my faithful A.D.C., when I was the Captain bold,

But Watson I, to your Sherlock Holmes, in the Baker Street days of

old.

We went through times that were strange and bad, and we shared and

shared the same,

And talked and dreamed and planned of the day when we’d come to

freedom and fame.

And the dreams came true, and the times were changed, and we did the

things we’d planned--

(Don’t you remember the two Fur Coats, and the trips to Weston

sand?)--

So now you work at a real Career, and I’m writing, in Singapore,

And send my book to my Twin--a token of all that has gone before.

A sign of the past--but a symbol, too, that is known to you and me,

Of the days together still to come, and the best that is yet to be._”

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