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_Title:_ Paid With Thanks
_Date of first publication:_ 1925
_Author:_ John Hay Beith as Ian Hay (1876-1952)
_Date first posted:_ Dec. 5, 2018
_Date last updated:_ Dec. 5, 2018
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[Cover Illustration]
BOOKS BY
IAN HAY
NOVELS
_Pip:_
_A Romance of Youth_
_The Right Stuff_
_A Man’s Man_
_A Safety Match_
_Happy-go-Lucky_
_A Knight on Wheels_
_The Willing Horse_
_The Lucky Number_
_Paid with Thanks_
_Half-a-Sovereign_
_The Poor Gentleman_
_The Middle Watch_
_(with Stephen King-Hall)_
WAR, ESSAYS, ETC.
_The Lighter Side of School Life_
_The First Hundred Thousand_
_Carrying On, After the First_
_ Hundred Thousand_
_Getting Together_
_The Last Million_
_The Shallow End_
_with illustrations in colour by_
_Lewis Baumer_
_The Ship of Remembrance:_
_Gallipoli—Salonika_
_(2/- edition only)_
[Illustration: PAID WITH THANKS BY IAN HAY _Author of
“Happy-Go-Lucky,”_ _“The First Hundred Thousand,”_ _etc._ HODDER AND
STOUGHTON LIMITED LONDON]
_First Edition, Published _ • _July,_ 1925
_Second Edition, ” _ • _August,_ 1925
_Third Edition, ” _ • _August,_ 1925
_Fourth Edition, ” _ • _August,_ 1925
_Fifth Edition, ” _ • _September,_ 1925
_Sixth Edition, ” _ • _October,_ 1925
_Seventh Edition, ” _ • _December,_ 1925
_Eighth Edition (F’cap 8vo.) _ • _February,_ 1928
_Ninth Edition (Popular) _ • _October,_ 1929
_Tenth Edition ” _ • _May,_ 1931
_Made and Printed in Great Britain for Hodder & Stoughton, Limited_
_by C. Tinling & Co., Ltd., Liverpool, London and Prescot._
_Contents_
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CHAPTER PAGE
I The Young Idea 7
II Lionel the Terrible 16
III Mildred Cradock 27
IV Omne Ignotum 41
V The Legend 51
VI A Page of Unwritten History 62
VII Khaki Fever 80
VIII Moonshine Effects 99
IX Nom de Guerre 119
X The Eleventh Commandment 135
XI Word of Honour 149
XII Twenty-one 155
XIII Heredity 175
XIV The Philosophy of Uncle Tony 187
XV Hostages 191
XVI A Note of Inquiry 213
XVII Reinforcements 225
XVIII What Charity Covers 231
XIX Apron Strings 237
XX The Loyalist 245
XXI The Tigress 255
XXII The Counsellor 280
XXIII The Littlest of the Hostages 296
XXIV Chance? 310
XXV Account Rendered 314
XXVI Paid With Thanks 317
_The second half of this story was originally presented in
dramatic form by Mr. Robert Loraine, at the St. James’s Theatre,
under the title of “The Happy Ending.”_
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