



Produced by Al Haines









  THE EMBLEMS OF
  FIDELITY

  A Comedy in Letters

  BY

  JAMES LANE ALLEN

  AUTHOR OF
  "THE KENTUCKY CARDINAL,"
  "THE KENTUCKY WARBLER," ETC.


  There is nothing so ill-bred as audible
  laughter.... I am sure that since I have
  had the full use of my reason nobody has
  ever heard me laugh.
      --Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son.



  GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
  DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
  1919




  COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
  DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF
  TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES,
  INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN




  To
  THE SPIRIT OF COMEDY

  INCOMPARABLE ALLY
  OF VICTORY




LIST OF CHARACTERS

EDWARD BLACKTHORNE...............Famous elderly English novelist

BEVERLEY SANDS....................Rising young American novelist

BENJAMIN DOOLITTLE....Practical lawyer, friend of Beverley Sands

GEORGE MARIGOLD............................Fashionable physician

CLAUDE MULLEN............Fashionable ne