His two hands had fallen on her shoulders, straightened her up, held her at arm’s length for just an instant. The innate bravery of the girl aided her to look straight into his eyes in turn. “You know,” she said, smiling slowly. “You must know now.” The tension of the fingers on her shoulders lessened. His voice came almost in a whisper. “I do know! Why, there is a new world, after all! We are the very first. There is no past.” “Dan!” said she, after a long time. “Dan!” Her fingers were twisting softly around his wrist, crumpling the white linen that they found there. Her eyes followed her fingers, not daring to look up. Her fingers were warm. He caught her chin in both his hands, though still her fingers clung. “Taisie,” said he, “what fools we’ve been! Ah, what a blind fool I was! Forgive me!” “Why, Dan!” she murmured. Her head fell forward upon his shoulder, drowsily, although it was morning, and though the sun shone all around them, brilliantly, blindingly. THE END _There’s More to Follow!_ More stories of the sort you like; more, probably, by the author of this one; more than 500 titles all told by writers of world-wide reputation, in the Authors’ Alphabetical List which you will find on the _reverse side_ of the wrapper of this book. Look it over before you lay it aside. There are books here you are sure to want—some, possibly, that you have _always_ wanted. It is a _selected_ list; every book in it has achieved a certain measure of _success_. The Grosset & Dunlap list is not only the greatest Index of Good Fiction available, it represents in addition a generally accepted Standard of Value. It will pay you to _Look on the Other Side of the Wrapper!_ _In case the wrapper is lost write to_ _the publishers for a complete catalog_ EMERSON HOUGH’S NOVELS May be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap’s list. =THE COVERED WAGON= An epic story of the Great West from which the famous picture was made. =THE WAY OF A MAN= A colorful romance of the pioneer West before the Civil War. =THE SAGEBRUSHER= An Eastern girl answers a matrimonial ad. and goes out West in the hills of Montana to find her mate. =THE WAY OUT= A romance of the feud district of the Cumberland country. =THE BROKEN GATE= A story of broken social conventions and of a woman’s determination to put the past behind her. =THE WAY TO THE WEST= Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett and Kit Carson figure in this story of the opening of the West. =HEART’S DESIRE= The story of what happens when the railroad came to a little settlement in the far West. =THE PURCHASE PRICE=