"No, never. I know I haven't," Georgie averred. "You are kind to take me in one! I do love you, I say!" "Do you, darling?" "Yes, really. I love you bestest in the world. I know I do!" They were entering Lakenhall, and it was quite dark in the fly; but now Georgie knew that Gwynneth was crying, for she was kissing him at the same time, and as he never had been kissed before. "And you always will, Georgie--you always will?" "Course I will," said Georgie, gaily. "And go to school when Gwynneth sends you, and turn into a great strong man, and be good to poor Gwynneth then?" "Gooder'n all the world," said Georgie. THE END "Mr. Hornung's books are stories pure and simple, excellently constructed, well written, cleanly, humorous, kindly. The plot is always well managed, the telling is lively, with no waste of irrelevant episode, and the untying is sure to be left to the last."--_New York Evening Post_. OTHER BOOKS BY E. W. HORNUNG Dead Men Tell No Tales A Novel. 12mo, $1.25 "In this novel, as in the previous ones from Mr. Hornung's pen, there is a wealth of well-handled incidents. It is story-telling of the most direct kind and holds the attention from the first page to the last Mr. Hornung seems to us in each succeeding book from his pen to gain in confidence and authority, and we do not hesitate to place him among the first of the comparatively new writers who must be reckoned with."--_Literature_. The Amateur Cracksman 12mo, $1.25 "There is not a dull page from beginning to end. . . . He is the most interesting rogue we have met for a long time."--_New York Evening Sun_. "Raffles is amazing; his resource is perfect; he talks like a gentlemen and acts like one, except when occupied with pressing business in another man's house, at midnight, and naturally he has a 'cool nerve,' a nerve positively arctic. They all have nerves like that, these Raffleses."--_New York Tribune_. BOOKS BY MR. HORNUNG "Mr. Hornung has certainly earned the right to be called the Bret Harte of Australia."--_Boston Herald_. Some Persons Unknown 12mo, $1.25 CONTENTS Kenyon's Innings A Literary Coincidence "Author! Author!" The Widow of Piper's Point After the Fact The Voice of Gunbar The Magic Cigar The Governess at Greenbush A Farewell Performance A Spin of the Coin The Star of the "Grasmere" "_In about half-a-dozen cases the scene is laid in Australia, and the dramatic and tragic aspects of Colonial life are treated by Mr. Hornung with that happy union of vigor and sympathy which has stood him in such good stead in his earlier novels._"--London Spectator. The Rogue's March A ROMANCE 12mo, $1.50 "Mr. Hornung has succeeded admirably in his object: his Australian scenes are a veritable nightmare; they sear the imagination, and it will be some time before we get Hookey Simpson, the clank of the chains, and the hero's degradation off our mind."--_London Saturday Review_.