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    EXILES AND OTHER STORIES
    by RICHARD HARDING DAVIS




    The Novels and Stories of Richard Harding Davis

    THE EXILES AND OTHER STORIES

    by

    RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

    With an Introduction by Charles Dana Gibson

    Illustrated

    NEW YORK
    CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

    1919

    "The Exiles" and "The Boy Orator of Zepata City" from "The Exiles,"
    copyright, 1894, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
    "The Other Woman" from "Gallagher," copyright, 1891, by CHARLES
    SCRIBNER'S SONS; "On the Fever Ship," "The Lion and the Unicorn," and
    "The Last Ride Together" from "The Lion and the Unicorn," copyright,
    1899, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS; "Miss Delamar's Understudy" from
    "Cinderella," copyright, 1896, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS; "The
    Reporter Who Made Himself King" from "Stories for Boys," copyright,
    1891, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.







    [Illustration: Instead she buried her face in its folds.]





    TO MY FRIEND

    J. DAVIS BRODHEAD




    THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF DAVIS


    Dick was twenty-four years old when he came into the smoking-room of
    the Victoria Hotel, in London, after midnight one July night--he was
    dressed as a Thames boatman.

    He had been rowing up and down the river since sundown, looking for
    color. He had evidently peopled every dark corner with a pirate, and
    every floating object had meant something to him. He had adventure
    written all over him. It was the first time I had ever seen him, and
    I had never heard of him. I can't now recall another figure in that
    smoke-filled room. I don't remember who introduced us--over
    twenty-seven years have passed since that night. But I can see Dick
    now dressed in a rough brown suit, a soft hat, with a handkerchief
    about his neck, a splendid, healthy, clean-minded, gifted boy at play.
    And so he always remained.

    His going out of this world seemed like a boy interrupted in a game he
    loved. And how well and fairly he played it! Surely no one deserved
    success more than Dick. And it is a consolation

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