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My relations with the readers of this page have been
long and pleasant, but--perhaps for that very reason--
I feel that the time has come when I ought to confess
the one great crime of my life. It happened a long time ago;
but it is not uncommon for a belated burst of remorse
to reveal such dark episodes long after they have occurred.
It has nothing to do with the orgies of the Anti-Puritan League.
That body is so offensively respectable that a newspaper,
in describing it the other day, referred to my friend
Mr. Edgar Jepson as Canon Edgar Jepson; and it is believed
that similar titles are intended
