“Oh, yes,’ says Stevens, ‘I’ll let you have it, all right. That is, I’ll give you my personal check.’ “I reckon that’s good,’ says Pete, an’ so it was, for everybody on the river knowed Stevens. “It was the neatest play I ever expect to see, for them papers wasn’t worth the ink that was on ’em. It seems that Stevens had come to know about Pete always playin’ for a royal flush, an’ had joked him about it, knowin’ Pete pretty well an’ likin’ him as a man gets to like a bartender that treats him right, an’ Pete had got him to promise to lend him all the money he needed to play with, whenever he should get the royal flush. [Illustration: “‘BUT CERTAINLY YOU AIN’T GOIN’ TO BET ON THAT HAND?’”] Then when Stevens came over to lend him the money if he really had the cards, him knowin’ that the deeds was a bluff, he was sport enough and liked Pete well enough to help him along with his little remark about not betting on that hand. “Of course, when they heard that, the other players thought sure he was bluffing, an’ Pete coaxed ’em along till he cleaned up $18,000. Then he invested the money, an’, as I said, become a respectable taxpayer. It all shows what a man can do by stickin’ to what he has to do in this world.” THE END. * * * * * L. C. Page and Company’s Announcement List of New Fiction Carolina Lee By LILIAN BELL, author of “Hope Loring,” “Abroad with the Jimmies,” etc. With a frontispiece in colour from an oil painting by Dora Wheeler Keith $1.50 A typical “Lilian Bell” book, bright, breezy, amusing, philosophic, full of fun and bits of quotable humour. Carolina is a fascinating American girl, born and educated in Paris, and at the beginning of the story riding on the top wave of success in New York society. A financial catastrophe leaves her stranded without money, and her only material asset an old, run-down plantation in South Carolina. In the face of strong opposition she goes South to restore the old homestead and rebuild her fortunes. Complications speedily follow, but, with indomitable faith and courage, Carolina perseveres until her efforts are rewarded by success and happiness. The Cruise of the Conqueror BEING THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE MOTOR PIRATE. By G. SIDNEY PATERNOSTER, author of “The Motor Pirate,” etc. With a frontispiece by Frank T. Merrill $1.50 One of the most fascinating games to childhood is the old-fashioned “hide-and-seek,” with its scurrying for covert, its breathless suspense to both hider and seeker, and its wild dash for goal when the seeker is successful. Readers of “The Motor Pirate” will remember the exciting game played by the motor pirate and his pursuers, and will be glad to have the sport taken up again in the new volume.