_The following tale was taken down from Mr. Stevenson’s dictation by his stepdaughter and amanuensis_, _Mrs. Strong_, _at intervals between January_ 1893 _and October_ 1894 (_see_ Vailima Letters, _pp._ 242–246, 299, 324 _and_ 350). _About six weeks before his death he laid the story aside to take up_ Weir of Hermiston. _The thirty chapters of_ St. Ives _which he had written_ (_the last few of them apparently unrevised_) _brought the tale within sight of its conclusion_, _and the intended course of the remainder was known in outline to Mrs. Strong_. _For the benefit of those readers who do not like a story to be left unfinished_, _the delicate task of supplying the missing chapters has been …
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