The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Woman-Haters, by Joseph C. Lincoln This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Woman-Haters Author: Joseph C. Lincoln Release Date: May 16, 2006 [EBook #2372] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WOMAN-HATERS *** Produced by Donald Lainson; David Widger THE WOMAN-HATERS By Joseph C. Lincoln FOREWORD (By Way of Explanation) A story of mine called, like this, "The Woman-Haters," appeared recently in one of the magazines. That story was not this one, except in part—the part dealing with "John Brown" and Miss Ruth Graham. Readers of the former tale who perhaps imagine they know all about Seth Atkins and Mrs. Emeline Bascom will be surprised to find they really know so little. The truth is that, when I began to revise and rearrange the magazine story for publication as a book, new ideas came, grew, and developed. I discovered that I had been misinformed concerning the lightkeeper's past and present relations with the housekeeper at the bungalow. And there was "Bennie D." whom I had overlooked, had not mentioned at all; and that rejuvenated craft, the Daisy M.