

E-text prepared by MWS, Martin Pettit, and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made
available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)



Note: Images of the original pages are available through
      Internet Archive. See
      https://archive.org/details/prisonersofhartl00bereuoft/mode/2up





THE PRISONERS OF HARTLING


      *      *      *      *      *      *

BY

J. D. BERESFORD

THE JERVAISE COMEDY

AN IMPERFECT MOTHER

      *      *      *      *      *      *


THE PRISONERS OF HARTLING

by

J. D. BERESFORD

'There is a sore evil which I have seen under the
sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to
their hurt.'

_Ecclesiastes_ v. 13.






New York
The Macmillan Company
1922

All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

Copyright, 1922,
by the Macmillan Company.

Set up and printed. Published February, 1922.

Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.




To
H. H. BASHFORD




T