|I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to the editors of several magazines for permission to reprint the following stories in book form. “Carter” was originally published in _Harpers Monthly Magazine_ under the title “The Mulatto.” “Death and Old Man Murtrie” was printed in The New _Republic_; others were first brought out in _Everybody's Magazine, Short Stories, Putnam's Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post_. “The Penitent” was originally printed in _The Pictorial Review_, with the title “The Healer and the Penitent.” The plot of this story is taken from two poems, one by Browning and one by Owen Meredith. Happening to read these two poems, one after the other, I was struck by the fact t…
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