PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH RED HAIR A ROMANTIC MACABRE By HUGH WALPOLE NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY, INC. (HARPER'S BAZAAR) PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH RED HAIR —A— PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO MY FRIENDS ETHEL AND ARTHUR FOWLER DEDICATORY LETTER. BRACKENBURN, April 1925. DEAR ETHEL AND ARTHUR— It is appropriate, in a way, that I should give you this book when so much of it was written under your roof. It is a romance, and this has not been, during the last twenty years, a favourable time for romances. But I like to give it to you because you know how it was written, in a very happy summer after a long and arduous lecture tour during which, more than ever before, I learned to love your country. I wrote it as a rest and a refreshment, and I will tell you frankly that I have enjoyed writing it very much. But I do not know whether, in these stern days, stories
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