| Introduction |
| Black’erchief Dick Chapter: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI. |
BLACK’ERCHIEF DICK
BLACK’ERCHIEF DICK
BY
MARGERY ALLINGHAM
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
WILLIAM McFEE
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1923
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COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
MARGERY ALLINGHAM
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
First Edition
DEDICATED
TO
H A L G R A M E
IN THE HOPE THAT HE WILL BE SATISFIED THAT I HAVE DONE MY BEST TOFULFIL THE PROMISE I MADE TO HIM TO TELL THE STORY OF ANNY AND TO“TELL TRUE”
INTRODUCTION
IN THE sense of requiring elucidation or apology, this novel needs nointroduction. The young lady who wrote it about two years ago, when shewas eighteen, has already abandoned this work to publishers and othergrown-ups, and with admirable professional good sense, is working uponfresh enterprises.
In this, indeed, she is a genuine artist. Nothing is more clear from hercorrespondence with the writer of this introduction, than that she is,without ever becoming conscious of the fact, a gen