The two white heads of Truckleford felt that they, too, knew Longfield. Their promise was given that one day they would undertake that formidable journey from their insular home across the Atlantic and taste Virginia ham and sweet corn on their native heath. Peter had told them how he would send them spinning over the highways to the suburbs of Boston, to Cape Cod and the White Mountains, and skirting the gleaming silver of the Hudson to Manhattan, where the skyscrapers rise from their granite beds. Only the presence of Bricktop was needed to round out this dinner party at the vicarage; but he was too busy in France making the relatives and the sweethearts of other maimed men rejoice, to accept any invitations. "I was backing Phil," Peter mused, after he had lighted his cigar; and, as Bill Hurley had repeatedly said, Peter was "nobody's fool." "Phil ain't, either," Bill concluded, after he saw the girl that Phil brought home from the wars. THE END Popular Copyright Novels AT MODERATE PRICES Ask your dealer for a complete list of A. L. Burt Company's Popular Copyright Fiction Abner Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . Will N. Harben Adventures of Gerard . . . . . . . . . A. Conan Doyle Adventures of a Modest Man . . . . . . R. W. Chambers Adventures of Sherlock Holmes . . . . A. Conan Doyle After House, The . . . . . . . Mary Roberts Rinehart Ailsa Paige . . . . . . . . . . . Robert W. Chambers Alternative, The . . . . . . . George Barr McCutcheon Alton of Somasco . . . . . . . . . . Harold Bindloss Amateur Gentleman, The . . . . . . . . Jeffery Farnol Andrew The Glad . . . . . . . Maria Thompson Daviess Ann Boyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Will N. Harben Annals of Ann, The . . . . . . . . . Kate T. Sharber Anna the Adventuress . . . . . E. Phillips Oppenheim Armchair at the Inn, The . . . . . F. Hopkinson Smith Ariadne of Allan Water . . . . . . . . Sidney McCall At the Age of Eve . . . . . . . . . Kate T. Sharber At the Mercy of Tiberius . . . . Augusta Evans Wilson Auction Block, The . . . . . . . . . . . . Rex Beach Aunt Jane of Kentucky . . . . . . . . Eliza C. Hall Awakening of Helena Ritchie . . . . Margaret Deland Bambi . . . . . . . . . . . . Marjorie Benton Cooke Bandbox, The . . . . . . . . . . . Louis Joseph Vance Barbara of the Snows . . . . . . . Harry Irving Green Bar 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clarence E. Mulford Bar 20 Days . . . . . . . . . . Clareace E. Mulford Barrier, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rex Beach Beasts of Tarzan, The . . . . . Edgar Rice Burroughs Beechy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bettina Von Hutten Bella Donna . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Hichens Beloved Vagabond, The . . . . . . . . . Wm. J. Locke Ben Blair . . . . . . . . . . . . . Will Lillibridge Beth Norvell . . . . . . . . . . . . Randall Parrish Betrayal, The . . . . . . . . E. Phillips Oppenheim Better Man, The . . . . . . . .