Presently the old man stirred up his drowsy horse, and the cart began to move. He had thanked the crowd for their generous charity, in the name of the sisters, whose order did not permit them such public speech. The men stood watching the departure of the cart with a certain wistfulness. The sight of these good women had roused them to unwonted musings. But of the tragedy taking place beneath their eyes, they had no imagination--for in that moment, a man and a woman who had loved with the supreme passion of their hearts, and who had been separated by an inexorable fate, had looked their last into each other’s eyes. PRINTED AT THE LAKESIDE PRESS, CHICAGO FOR HERBERT S. STONE & CO. MDCCCXCVI October, 1896. _Established May, 1896._ Number 1. Catalogue of The Publications of Herbert S. Stone & Company The Caxton Building, Chicago. [Illustration] _To be had of all Booksellers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price by the Publishers._ [Illustration] HENRY JAMES. =WHAT MAISIE KNEW=; a novelette. 16mo. $1.25. The announcement of a new book by Mr. James is in itself an event of no slight literary importance. The present volume represents his latest work and is worthy the attention of all persons interested in English and American letters. RICHARD LE GALLIENNE. =PROSE FANCIES=; second series, by the author of “The Book-bills of Narcissus,” etc., with a cover designed by Frank Hazenplug. 16mo. $1.25. “In these days of Beardsley pictures and decadent novels, it is good to find a book as sweet, as pure, as delicate as Mr. Le Gallienne’s.”--NEW ORLEANS PICAYUNE. “PROSE FANCIES ought to be in everyone’s summer library, for it is just the kind of a book one loves to take to some secluded spot to read and dream over.”--KANSAS CITY TIMES. “There are witty bits of sayings by the score, and sometimes whole paragraphs of nothing but wit. Somewhere there is a little skit about ‘Scotland, the country that takes its name from the whisky made there,’ and the transposed proverb like: ‘It is an ill wind for the shorn lamb,’ and ‘Many rise on the stepping stones of their dead relations,’ are brilliant. ‘Most of us would never be heard of were it not for our enemies,’ is a capital epigram.”--CHICAGO TIMES-HERALD. “Mr. Le Gallienne is first of all a poet, and these little essays, which savor somewhat of Lamb, of Montaigne, of Lang, and of Birrell, are larded with verse of exquisite grace. He rarely ventures into the grotesque, but his fancy follows fair paths; a certain quaintness of expression and the idyllic atmosphere of the book charm one at the beginning and carry one through the nineteen ‘fancies’ that comprise the volume.”--CHICAGO RECORD. MARIA LOUISE POOL. =IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY.= 16mo. $1.25.