A War Episode--I Meet my Fater--I Marry and Make a Home--The Ups and Downs of Life Lead to a Happy Old Age I In bringing these desultory--perhaps too fragmentary--recollections to a close the writer may not be denied his final word.

This shall neither be self-confident nor overstated; the rather a confession of faith somewhat in rejection of political and religious pragmatism.

In both his experience has been ample if not exhaustive.

During the period of their serial publication he has received many letters--suggestive, informatory and critical--now and again querulous--which he has not failed to consider, and, where occasion seemed to require, to pursue to original sources in quest of accuracy.

In no instance has he found any essential error in his narrative.