In the hour of his own triumph, because of the greatness of his own joy, tenderness for his friend revived. "Dear old chap! How handsome he looked to-day!" Vivien pressed his arm. "You can say that as often as you like! There's no danger from him now!" The shadow passed from Andy Hayes' face as he turned to his own great joy. THE END. Notes on Nelson's New Novels. _No work of unwholesome character or of second-rate quality will be included in this Series._ The novel is to-day _the_ popular form of literary art. This is proved by the number of novels published, and by the enormous sales of fiction at popular prices. While _Reprints_ of fiction may be purchased for a few pence, _New Fiction_ is still a luxury. The author of a New Novel loses his larger audience, the public are denied the privilege of enjoying his latest work, because of the prohibitive price of 4s. 6d. demanded for the ordinary "six shilling" novel. In another way both author and public are badly served under the present publishing system. At certain seasons a flood of new novels pours from the press. Selection becomes almost impossible. The good novels are lost among the indifferent and the bad. Good service can be done to literature not only by reducing the price of fiction, but by sifting its quality. The number of publishers issuing new fiction is so great, that the entrance of another firm into the field demands almost an apology--at least, a word of explanation. Messrs. Nelson have been pioneers in the issue of reprints of fiction in Library Edition at Sevenpence. The success of _Nelson's Library_ has been due to the careful selection of books, regular publication throughout the whole year, and excellence of manufacture at a low cost, due to perfection of machinery. Nelson's Sevenpenny Library represents the best that can be given to the public in the way of _Reprints_ under present manufacturing conditions. Nelson's New Novels (of which this book is one of the first volumes) represents the same standard of careful selection, excellence of production, and lowest possible price applied to _New Fiction_. The list of authors of Nelson's New Novels for 1910 includes Anthony Hope, E. F. Benson, H. A. Vachell, H. G. Wells, "Q," G. A. Birmingham, John Masefield, Mrs. W. K. Clifford, J. C. Snaith, John Buchan, and Agnes and Egerton Castle. Arrangements for subsequent volumes have been made with other authors of equally high standing.