FROM "THE VENGEANCE OF THE DEAD"

It is a bad thing for a man to die with an unsatisfied thirst for revenge parching his soul. David Allen died, cursing Bernard Heaton and lawyer Grey; hating the lawyer who had won the case even more than the man who was to gain by the winning. Yet if cursing were to be done, David should rather have cursed his own stubbornness and stupid-ity.

Also included in this volume: "Transformation," "The Shadow of the Greenback," "The Understudy," "'Out of Thun, '" "A Dramatic Point," "Two Florentine Balconies," "The Exposure of Lord Stansford" and "Purification.