"Clasp your right hands." The hands were clasped. "Now listen to me. Diccon Bright, do you take this woman whom you hold by the hand to be your wedded wife?" Dic's faculties again began to wane, and he did not answer at once. "The answer is, 'I do,' you stupid," cried Billy, and Dic said, "I do." "Do you, Rita Fisher Bays,--Margarita Fisher Bays,--take this man whom you hold by the right hand to be your husband?" Rita's faculties were in perfect condition and very alert, so she answered quickly, "I do." "Then," continued our worthy justice of the peace, "by virtue of authority vested in me by the laws of the state of Indiana, I pronounce you husband and wife. I kiss the bride." After kissing Rita, and shaking hands with Dic and Mrs. Bright, Billy hurried out through the door, and the new-made husband and wife watched him as he mounted and rode away. He was singing--not humming, but singing--at his topmost pitch, "Maxwelton's braes are bonny, where early falls the dew." He had never before been known to complete the stanza. His voice could be heard after he had passed out of sight into the forest, and just as the sun peeped from the east, turning the frost dust to glittering diamonds and the snow-clad forest to a paradise in white, the song lost itself among the trees, and Dic, closing the door, led Rita to his hearth log. * * * * * Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall By CHARLES MAJOR _Author of "When Knighthood Was in Flower," etc._ With eight full-page illustrations by HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY Cloth 12mo $1.50 "Dorothy Vernon is an Elizabethan maid, but a living, loving, lovable girl.... The lover of accuracy of history in fiction may rest contented with the story; but he will probably care little for that once he has been caught by the spirit and freshness of the romance."--_The Mail and Express._ "Dorothy is a splendid creation, a superb creature of brains, beauty, force, capacity, and passion, a riot of energy, love, and red blood. She is the fairest, fiercest, strongest, tenderest heroine that ever woke up a jaded novel reader and made him realize that life will be worth living so long as the writers of fiction create her like.... The story has brains, 'go,' virility, gumption, and originality."--_The Boston Transcript._ "Dorothy is a fascinating character, whose womanly whims and cunning ways in dealing with her manly, honest lover and her wrathful father are cleverly portrayed. The interest is maintained to the end. Some might call Dorothy a vixen, but she is of that rare and ravishing kind who have tried (and satisfied) men's souls from the days of Mother Eve to the present time."--_The New York Herald._ "A romance of much delicacy, variety, strength, and grace, in which are revealed the history of four lovers who by their purely human attributes are distinct types."--_Evening Journal News_, Evansville.