As for the grown-ups the story is not written for grown-ups, and if they want to know why it begins with such a gruesome first chapter, let them ask the children. Children like the horrors first and the end all bright. Many grown-ups like the tragedy at the end. But perhaps the children are right and the grown-ups are standing on their heads. Besides they can skip the first chapter; it is only a prologue.
PREFACE
On the analogy of the famous apple,—“there ain’t going to be no” preface, “not nohow.” Children do not read prefaces, so anything of a prefatory nature that might interest them is put at the beginning of chapter one.
As for the grown-ups the story is not written for grown-ups, and if they want to know why it begins with such a gruesome first chapter, let them ask the children. Children like the horrors first and the end all bright. Many grown-ups like the tragedy at the end. But perhaps the children are right and the grown-ups are standing on their heads. Besides they can skip the first chapter; it is only a prologue.
PREFACE
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CHAPTER I HATE
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CHAPTER II SECRETS
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CHAPTER III HATE AND LOVE
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CHAPTER IV THE PRISONER
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CHAPTER V THE THIEF
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CHAPTER VI BITTERNESS
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CHAPTER VII DEATH
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CHAPTER VIII REMORSE
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CHAPTER IX THE JUDGMENT
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CHAPTER X THE PACKMAN’S VISIT
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CHAPTER XI SWORDS AND QUESTIONINGS
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CHAPTER XII “MOLL O’ THE GRAVES”
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CHAPTER XIII COMING EVENTS CAST SHADOWS
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CHAPTER XIV GOOD-BYE
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CHAPTER XV THE TERROR OF THE MIST
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CHAPTER XVI A DESPERATE TASK
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CHAPTER XVII CARLISLE
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CHAPTER XVIII A DIPLOMATIC VICTORY
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CHAPTER XIX THE LOSS
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