Sister Angelica arrived true to her appointment, and went at once to the bedchamber. To her surprise she found Harriet lying on the bed, just where the corpse of Anthony Pennell had lain, and apparently asleep. “_Pauvre enfant!_” thought the kind-hearted nun, “grief has exhausted her! I should not have attended to her request, but have watched with her through the night! _Eh, donc! ma pauvre_,” she continued, gently touching the girl on the shoulder, “_levez-vous! Je suis là._” But there was no awakening on this earth for Harriet Pennell. She had taken an overdose of chloral and joined her husband. When Margaret Pullen received the will which Harriet had left behind her, she found these words with it, scribbled in a very trembling hand upon a scrap of paper. “Do not think more unkindly of me than you can help. My parents have made me unfit to live. Let me go to a world where the curse of heredity which they laid upon me may be mercifully wiped out.” THE END. PRINTING OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHER. November 1897. Tauchnitz Edition. Latest Volumes: The Ways of Life. Two New Stories by =Mrs. Oliphant=. 1 vol. Uncle Bernac. A New Novel by =A. Conan Doyle=. 1 vol. Dear Faustina. A New Novel by =Rhoda Broughton=. 1 vol. Mrs. Crichton’s Creditor. A New Novel by =Mrs. Alexander=. 1 vol. Poor Little Bella. A New Novel by =F. C. Philips=. 1 vol. One Man’s View. A New Novel by =Leonard Merrick=. 1 vol. A Fountain Sealed. A New Novel by =Walter Besant=. 1 vol. Lying Prophets. A New Novel by =Eden Phillpotts=. 2 vols. Ziska. A New Novel by =Marie Corelli=. 1 vol. The Manxman. A New Novel by =Hall Caine=. 2 vols. The Ancestors of Peter Atherly, etc. New Tales by =Bret Harte=. 1 vol. The Martian. A New Novel by =George du Maurier=. 2 vols. An Altruist, etc. A New Work by =Ouida=. 1 vol. A Spotless Reputation. A New Novel by =Dorothea Gerard=. 1 vol. Castle Meadow. A New Novel by =Emma Marshall=. 1 vol. The Coming of Chloe. A New Novel by Mrs. =Hungerford=. 1 vol. Old Mr. Tredgold. A New Novel by Mrs. =Oliphant=. 2 vols. The Jessamy Bride. A New Novel by =Frank Frankfort Moore=. 1 vol. Barbara, Lady’s Maid and Peeress. A New Novel by Mrs. =Alexander=. 1 vol. Margaret Ogilvy. A New Work by =J. M. Barrie=. 1 vol. _The Tauchnitz Edition is to be had of all Booksellers and Railway Libraries on the Continent, price M 1,60. or 2 francs per volume. A complete Catalogue of the Tauchnitz Edition is attached to this work._ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: frontmatter: moved one page (beginning of publisher’s list of Latest Volumes) to the end and joined with the rest of the list for continuity page 10: ‘dared not say Bo!’ changed to ‘dared not say Boo!’ page 53: ‘and generally kow-tooing’ changed to ‘and generally kow-towing’