This novel, originally serialized in ten installments of?The Country Gentleman in 1920, was published under the name Stephen Dircks. However, it has been verified that the true author of this novel was Albert Payson Terhune, author of Lad, A Dog (1919) and other greatly-beloved dog stories and novels. Scanned from the original source magazines, this novel is now published in book form for the first time, and under the author's true name.