BOOKS BY F. HOPKINSON SMITH PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS FELIX O’DAY. Illustrated _net_ $1.35 THE ARM-CHAIR AT THE INN. Illustrated _net_ 1.30 KENNEDY SQUARE. Illustrated _net_ 1.35 PETER. Illustrated _net_ 1.35 THE TIDES OF BARNEGAT. Illustrated _net_ 1.35 THE FORTUNES OF OLIVER HORN. Illustrated _net_ 1.35 THE ROMANCE OF AN OLD-FASHIONED GENTLEMAN. Illustrated _net_ 1.35 COLONEL CARTER’S CHRISTMAS. Illustrated _net_ 1.35 FORTY MINUTES LATE. Illustrated _net_ 1.35 THE WOOD FIRE IN NO. 3. Illustrated _net_ 1.35 THE VEILED LADY. Illustrated _net_ 1.35 AT CLOSE RANGE. Illustrated _net_ 1.35 THE UNDER DOG. Illustrated _net_ 1.35 IN DICKENS’S LONDON. Illustrated _net_ 2.00 OUTDOOR SKETCHING. Illustrated _net_ 1.00 ENOCH CRANE. A novel planned and begun by F. Hopkinson Smith and completed by F. Berkeley Smith. Illustrated _net_ 1.35 ENOCH CRANE [Illustration: Lamont ... was again beside her, pleading to take her home. [_Page 114_] ENOCH CRANE A NOVEL PLANNED AND BEGUN BY F. HOPKINSON SMITH AND COMPLETED BY F. BERKELEY SMITH ILLUSTRATED BY ALONZO KIMBALL NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1916 COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Published September, 1916 [Illustration] PREFACE It was my father’s practise, in planning a novel, first to prepare a most complete synopsis from beginning to end--never proceeding with the actual writing of the book until he had laid out the characters and action of the story--chapter by chapter. This synopsis, which closely resembled the scenario of a play, he kept constantly enriching with little side-notes as they occurred to him--new ideas and points of detail. So spirited were these synopses, and so clearly did they reflect the process of his mind, that by the few who saw them in the course of publishing consultations, or friendly confidence, they were remembered often after the finished novel had obliterated its constructive lines.