This purchase makes Street & Smith the sole owners and publishers of all of this celebrated author’s copyrighted stories. This only emphasizes what has always been a patent fact--that Street & Smith are the most progressive paper-book publishers in the world, and that nowhere can the novel reader get so much for his or her money as in the S. & S. lines. STREET & SMITH, Publishers New York Transcriber’s Notes: Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected (sometimes in consultation with the original 1898-1899 serial appearance in _Street & Smith’ New York Weekly_ to ensure accuracy to the author's intent). Table of contents has been added and placed into the public domain by the transcriber. Inconsistent hyphenation of upstairs vs. up-stairs is preserved from the original text.