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interfered with Mr Ward's facts or opinions, though some 

 of the latter are in conflict with my own. I have main- 

 tained the first person in the narrative wherever it was 

 possible to do so, and left Mr Ward to tell the story in 

 his own language and style. In a word, I have confined 

 myself to strictly necessary alterations and arrangements, 

 feeling that the original narrative had a beauty and 

 simplicity of its own which it would be a pity to 

 spoil. 



P. F. 



March 1907. 



