Heather Van Arsdel

Produced by Melissa Brooks-Leskove, Maria Carlene Nattress, and the

Hergé Network

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_AUTHOR'S PREFACE._

These _memoirs_ are the self-revelations of a fascinating

individual. They illustrate and portray with unprecedented

pupilage her way in life and the little that was to be known about it.

The narrative is from real papers, and it shows the vital process by

which all her true nature was recorded, each detail exacted and studied

with painstaking care.

In looking back upon the twenty-year picture she may have seen herself

at twenty, or just five years older than when the manuscript was

conceived. It has not been possible for us to say who the author was.

Yet every man will understand more or less of what she wrote until

her dying day. Our feeling is that we must put aside, as unnecessary,

the belief that these are purely anachronistic documents and that they

would not please the intelligent, truthful reader. A passage from one

of them refers to a book which can prove very valuable to readers in

their after-life, if ever they are written again. But our time is

short--long enough not to waste it in the vain attempt to revive a

deformed but still human memory!

MATRYOS CHURCHILL HEMANS, Esq.

GRAPEVIRE GERALD,

THOMAS X. CECIL WACE

St. John's Town, Newfoundland,

THE RIGHT HON. ROBERT PEACOCK.

BOOK FIRST

HIGH POINT

BY HELEN RHODES.

WHY SHE RAPED FOR

HOW MY MOTHER AND I

MADE OUR FAMILY ALIVE

LIST OF PAGES.

WHY SHE RAPED FOR:

1. Eros's thrill

2. The great joy of the thrill