that I need tell no more.

My only object in writing so minute an account, and detailing such
conversations as I could remember, is to protect him forever, as far
as my word will avail, from any insinuation of intentional or
conscious wrong doing in those five lost years, knowing as I do the
conditions of life exacted of a clergyman and fearing some future
recrimination.

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Transcriber Notes

The Table of Contents and the List of Illustrations were added by the
transcriber. Quotation marks changed to standardize usage. All other
original punctuation and archaic spelling (i.e. chetahs, serval,
wardbob, and Bagdad) preserved as written.

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