THE EMPEROR OF ELAM
AND OTHER STORIES
OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
CONSTANTINOPLE OLD AND NEW
STAMBOUL NIGHTS
PERSIAN MINIATURES
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THE
EMPEROR OF ELAM
AND OTHER STORIES
BY
H. G. DWIGHT
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1920
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Copyright, 1908, 1920, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
Copyright, 1903, 1904, by Charles Scribner’s Sons
Copyright, 1904, by The Associated Sunday Magazines
Copyright, 1904, 1905, by Dodd, Mead & Company, and
George H. Doran Company
Copyright, 1905, by The Outlook Company
Copyright, 1905, 1906, by Smart Set Company, Inc.
Copyright, 1909, by The Sunset Magazine
Copyright, 1916, 1917, 1918, by The Century Company
Copyright, 1918, by Edward J. O’Brien
Copyright, 1918, by Small, Maynard & Company, Inc.
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TO
J. R. M. TAYLOR
COLONEL, UNITED STATES ARMY,
HISTORIAN OF THE PHILIPPINES:
ARCH IRONIST,
EX-EDITOR OF “THE INFANTRY JOURNAL,”
LATE LIBRARIAN OF THE ARMY WAR COLLEGE, WASHINGTON,
SOMETIME MILITARY ATTACHÉ AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY, CONSTANTINOPLE,
MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI,
INSTIGATOR OF OR ACCOMPLICE IN TOO MANY OTHER ACTIVITIES HERE TO BE NAMED;
WHO YET FOUND TIME TO INVENTONE, NOR THE LEAST SEDUCTIVE, OF THE ENSUING FABLES,AND WHO COURTEOUSLY PUT IN THE WAY OF HIS COLLABORATORTWO OF THE MOST EXASPERATING AND PROFITABLE EXPERIENCESOF A CAREER BY NO MEANS BARREN OF SUCH ACCIDENTS:
WITH THE COMPLIMENTS
OF HIS OBLIGED AND ADMIRING FRIEND
THE AUTHOR.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Of the stories in this collection, three originally appeared inThe Century Magazine (“Like Michael,” copyright, 1916; “TheEmperor of Elam,” copyright, 1917; “The Emerald of Tamerlane,”copyright, 1918), two each in The Bookman (“Unto theDay,” copyright, 1904; “Studio Smoke,” copyright, 1905),in Scribner’s Magazine (“The Bathers,” copyright, 1903; “HenriettaStackpole Rediviva,” copyright, 1904), and in The SmartSet (“Susannah and the Elder,” copy