HARD CASH like THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH is a matteroffact Romance that is a fiction built on truths and these truths have been gathered bylong severe system... » 

HARD CASH like THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH is a matteroffact Romance that is a fiction built on truths and these truths have been gathered bylong severe systematic labor from a multitude of volumes pamphletsjournals reports bluebooks manuscript narratives letters and livingpeople whom I have sought out examined and crossexamined to get at thetruth on each main topic I have striven to handle. The madhouse scenes havebeen picked out by certain disinterested gentlemen who keep private asylumsand periodicals to puff them and have been met with bold denials of publicfacts and with timid personalities and a little easy cant about SensationNovelists but in reality those passages have been written on the same systemas the nautical legal and other scenes the best evidence has been ransackedand a large portion of this evidence I shall be happy to show at my house toany brother writer who is disinterested and really cares enough for truth andhumanity to walk or ride a mile in pursuit of them... «