“I would not dare say that in my own behalf,” she whispered. And then she went on: “But if, after all, I have turned out what you thought me, it is because you believed in me so long--and because your belief in me, and the way you handled me, forced me to become something different.... But it must have been hard for you--very, very hard!” “It’s been a thousand times worth it all, Mary,” he breathed, “a thousand times worth it all!” He caught her hand and held it tight beneath his on the steering-wheel-- it was as though now they were jointly steering their united lives; and they sped on through the soft, star-blossoming night, in the silence of full understanding, southward toward the great city where so long they had fought each other, and where now at the last they were to begin to build a life together. THE END Popular Copyright Novels _AT MODERATE PRICES_ Ask Your Dealer for a Complete List of A. L. Burt Company’s Popular Copyright Fiction =Abner Daniel.= By Will N. Harben. =Adventures of Gerard.= By A. Conan Doyle. =Adventures of a Modest Man.= By Robert W. Chambers. =Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.= By A. Conan Doyle. =Adventures of Jimmie Dale, The.= By Frank L. Packard. =After House, The.= By Mary Roberts Rinehart. =Alisa Paige.= By Robert W. Chambers. =Alton of Somasco.= By Harold Bindloss. =A Man’s Man.= By Ian Hay. =Amateur Gentleman, The.= By Jeffery Farnol. =Andrew The Glad.= By Maria Thompson Daviess. =Ann Boyd.= By Will N. Harben. =Anna the Adventuress.= By E. Phillips Oppenheim. =Another Man’s Shoes.= By Victor Bridges. =Ariadne of Allan Water.= By Sidney McCall. =Armchair at the Inn, The.= By F. Hopkinson Smith. =Around Old Chester.= By Margaret Deland. =Athalie.= By Robert W. Chambers. =At the Mercy of Tiberius.= By Augusta Evans Wilson. =Auction Block, The.= By Rex Beach. =Aunt Jane.= By Jeanette Lee. =Aunt Jane of Kentucky.= By Eliza C. Hall. =Awakening of Helena Richie.= By Margaret Deland.