"Mr. Tappenham, you're dreaming. There's nothing there. I'm saying nothing." "She's coming! she's coming!" he cried. "Take her away! take her away!" Mlle. Claire looked at his face. Then she too gave a shriek of fright, and, hiding her face in her hands, sank on the floor, sobbing. She saw nothing. But what was that face looking at? As for Mr. Tappenham, he fled into the corner of the room. And when Mlle. Claire recovered herself enough to draw back the curtains, and let in the blessed sun, he lay on the floor like a man dead. Mlle. Claire was a good girl. She had a mother and two little brothers to keep: so she stuck to the business; but she never liked it very much after that day. Mr. Tappenham could afford to retire, and he did retire. He lives very quietly, and gives large sums in charity. Mlle. Claire knows all the tricks that ever were invented; she is a thorough-going little skeptic, and believes in nothing that she does not see, and in very little of what she does. Therefore she merely exemplifies feminine illogicality when she thinks to herself, as she cannot help thinking now and then: "I wonder what he did to Nellie Davies!" She told me about it, and I believed her when she said that she was not playing a trick on Mr. Tappenham. But perhaps she was deceiving me also; if so, that is an explanation. I repeated the story to a scientific man. He said that it furnished an interesting instance of the permanence of an optical impression after the removal of the external excitant. That is another explanation. Or it may have been the working of conscience: that is an explanation in a way, though an improbable one, because, in spite of many opportunities, Mr. Tappenham's conscience had never given him any inconvenience before. It has since. THE END. BUCKRAM SERIES. Small 16mo, with frontispieces, 75c. each. THE PRISONER OF ZENDA. (_15th Ed._) By ANTHONY HOPE. A stirring romance. THE INDISCRETION OF THE DUCHESS. By ANTHONY HOPE. (_5th Edition._) THE WAYS OF YALE. (_Just Published._) Sketches, mainly humorous. By H. A. BEERS. A SUBURBAN PASTORAL. (_3d Edition._) American stories. By HENRY A. BEERS. JACK O'DOON. (_2d Edition._) An American novel. By MARIA BEALE. QUAKER IDYLS. (_4th Edition._) By MRS. S. M. H. GARDNER. A MAN OF MARK. (_2d Edition._) A South American tale. By ANTHONY HOPE. SPORT ROYAL. (_Just Published._) And Other Stories. By ANTHONY HOPE. THE DOLLY DIALOGUES. (_5th Edition._) By ANTHONY HOPE. A CHANGE OF AIR. (_5th Edition._) By ANTHONY HOPE. The adventures of an English poet. With an account of the author. JOHN INGERFIELD. (_4th Edition._) By JEROME K. JEROME. A love tragedy of old London, and four short tales. SLUM STORIES OF LONDON. (_Neighbors of Ours._) By H. W. NEVINSON. HENRY HOLT & CO., NEW YORK. FIFTEENTH EDITION. THE PRISONER OF ZENDA. By ANTHONY HOPE. 16mo, buckram, gilt top, with frontispiece, 75 cents.