A LADDER OF SWORDS If it does not seem too childish a candor to say soMichel and Angele always seems to me like some old letter lifted out of anancient cabinet ... » 

A LADDER OF SWORDS If it does not seem too childish a candor to say soMichel and Angele always seems to me like some old letter lifted out of anancient cabinet with the faint perfume of bygone days upon it. Perhaps that isbecause the story itself had its origin in a true but brief record of some goodHuguenots who fled from France and took refuge in England. . . . I wove roundMichel de la Foret and Angele Aubert a soft bright cloud of romance whichwould not leave my vision until I sat down and wrote out what in the writingseemed to me a true history. It was as though some telepathy between the daysof Elizabeth and our own controlled me selfhypnotism I suppose but stillthere it was. There will be found a few anachronisms in this tale but noneso important as to give a wrong impression of the events of Queen Elizabethsreign. from Gilbert Parkers Introduction «