But the inhuman treatment which I had experienced during the last fourteen days had brought me so low that I broke down next day; and I lay in bed several weeks suffering from fever and from a horrible skin-disease caused by the dirty mattress. The excitement and the exertions of the last few months, in conjunction with bad and insufficient food, had sapped my strength and I no longer felt equal to the fatigues of another attempt at escape. Fortunately, I had not to worry long over new schemes. In accordance with the Hague Convention of the same year I was exchanged and sent to Holland after exactly two years of captivity. GLASGOW: W. COLLINS SONS AND CO. LTD. Messrs COLLINS' Latest Novels _Messrs COLLINS will always he glad to send their book lists regularly to readers who will send name and address._ THE ROMANTIC By May Sinclair Author of _The Tree of Heaven_, etc. 'Wellnigh perfect.'--_Evening Standard._ 'Told in tingling words.'--_Times Literary Supplement._ 'A novel of curious power and intensity.'--_Daily Telegraph._ 'Grips our interest.'--_Morning Post._ 'Expressed with extraordinary vividness--brilliantly conceived.'--_Daily News._ ADAM OF DUBLIN By Conal O'Riordan ('Norreys Connell') Author of _The Young Days of Admiral Quilliam_, etc. 'The book is a thing of beauty. It has breadth; and it has unfailing humour.... A book of strange and original beauty, a wise book, a very moving book.'--_Times Literary Supplement._ 'A wholly delightful book--a thing of tears, and smiles, and laughter.'--_Evening Standard._ 'Mr O'Riordan has done us a real service in writing _Adam of Dublin_. It is definitely and defiantly romantic ... humour, fantasy, caricature, satire ... our only complaint is that its 300 pages are grievously short measure.'--_Observer._ 'The work of genius, informed with a rare wisdom and understanding ... the mere reading is a sheer joy ... a wonderful book.'--_New Witness._ _READY SHORTLY_ ADAM AND CAROLINE 'We are promised a sequel to _Adam of Dublin_--namely, _Adam and Caroline_. It will be waited for with pleasure and excitement.'--_Outlook._ THE PEOPLE OF THE RUINS By Edward Shanks Author of _The Queen of China_, etc. 'A fine, full-blooded story ... quaint and inviting.'--_Times Literary Supplement._ 'A powerfully imagined description of England, as it will be when Communism has attained its full triumph.... He handles one of the strangest love stories in the world with masterly skill.'--_British Weekly._ FORGOTTEN REALMS By Bohun Lynch Author of _Unofficial_, etc. 'Curiously and delicately written, a study of the shadowy companion that walks beside every man, of that secret being who is manifested in the twilight of the spirit, and in the hour of dreams.'--_Evening News._ 'Fanciful and elusive ... remarkably well done, with the delicacy of a strong man's hand.'--_Morning Post._ THE ADVENTUROUS LADY By J. C. Snaith