Explorers of the Dawn

done," consoled the–appears naturally in the original version on page 191 (Chapter VII, section II), and in a printer's error, is inserted between two halves of a hyphenated word on page 204; the latter was omitted. The use of hyphens in words was made consistent throughout. Variant spelling and dialect was faithfully preserved.*** Explorers of the Dawn NEW BORZOI NOVELS SPRING, 1922 Wanderers Knut Hamsun Men of Affairs Roland Pertwee The Fair Rewards Thomas Beer I Walked in Arden Jack Crawford Guest the One-eyed Gunnar Gunnarsson The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield The Longest Journey E. M. Forster The Soul of a Child Edwin Björkman Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer Explorers of the Dawn Mazo de la Roche The White Kami Edward Alden Jewell Explorers of the Dawn by Mazo de la Roche With a Foreword by Christopher Morley New York Alfred A Knopf 1922 Published February, 1922 Second Printing, March, 1922 Third Printing, May, 1922 Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Paper supplied by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y. Bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass. MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA But a short while ago, A. de la R. laughed with me over the adventures of these little fellows. To the memory of that happy laughter I dedicate the M. de la R. CONTENTS I Buried Treasure 15 II The Jilt 52 III Explorers of the Dawn 76 IV A Merry Interlude 99 V Freedom 127 VI D'ye Ken John Peel 160 VII Granfa 187 VIII Noblesse Oblige 219 IX The Cobbler and His Wife 250 X The New Day 276 FOREWORD The publisher has asked me to write a note of introduction to this book. Surely it needs none; but it is a pleasant task to write prefaces for other people's books. When one writes a preface to a book of one's own, one naturally grovels, deprecates, and has no opportunity to call the friendly reader's attention to what the author considers the beauties and significances of the work. How agreeable, then, to be able to do this service for another. Moreover, one hopes that such a service may not be wholly vain. Every book has its own special audience, for whom—very likely unconsciously—it was written: the group of people, far spread over the curve of earth, who will find in that particular book just the sort of…