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A TABLE OF CONTENTS MY LAST FLAPPERS THE JELLY-BEAN This is a Southern story, with the scene laid in the small city of Tarleton, Georgia. I have a profound affection for Tarleton, but somehow whenever I write a story about it I receive letters from all over the South denouncing me in no uncertain terms. “The Jelly-Bean,” published in “The Metropolitan,” drew its full share of these admonitory notes. It was written under strange circumstances shortly after my first novel was p