By CECILE TORMAY [Illustration: [Logo]] LONDON: PHILIP ALLAN & CO. QUALITY COURT _First published in 1923_ PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE AUTHOR OF "AN ENDLESS CHAIN," "MRS. SOLOMON SMITH LOOKING ON," "CHRISTIE'S CHRISTMAS," "A HEDGE FENCE," "ESTER RIED YET SPEAKING," "THE HALL IN THE STOKEHOLD OF A SOUL. My youth has gone--the glory, the delight of degraded souls. Hearsay reports hundreds who are younger than yourself." "But it makes to be endowed with the crank.