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SOLARIO THE TAILOR

[Illustration: Mortimer the Executioner]


[Illustration: “Then I will begin,” said Solario, the Tailor, “the
story of----”]




  SOLARIO THE TAILOR

  _HIS TALES OF THE MAGIC DOUBLET_


  BY
  WILLIAM BOWEN


  [Illustration]


  New York
  THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
  1922

  _All rights reserved_




  PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


  [Illustration]


  COPYRIGHT, 1922,
  BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

  Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1922.




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CONTENTS


  THE FIRST NIGHT

  STORY OF THE OLD MAN IN THE SPANGLED COAT

                                                                    PAGE

  _The doublet with the missing button--The dark mansion in the
  walled park--The tailor meets the tall black ma