“Yes?” I asked, failing to see what this had to do with the story. “It was that of my father’s elder brother,” she continued unsteadily, without looking at me, “so that my father, who up to that time had been M. de Benseval, succeeded to the title and became--became----” “M. de Chambray!” I shouted, seeing it all as in a lightning flash; and I sprang toward her, blind with sudden joy. For an instant she tried to hold me off; but my arms were about her, straining her to me. Then suddenly she yielded, and nestled to me, close--close against my heart. “Oh, my love!--my love!--my love!” she cried, and raised her lips to mine. “Did you call, M. de Tavernay?” asked a voice; and I raised my head to see my father’s friend standing upon the threshold, looking at us with smiling face. “Yes, monsieur,” I answered as intelligibly as I could. “I desired to announce to you that your daughter has decided to marry me.” “In faith,” he said, a humorous light in his eye, “I somehow suspected it the moment I opened the door.” With which remark he closed it again, and left us alone together. THE END. By BURTON E. STEVENSON CADETS OF GASCONY Illustrated by Anna W. Betts. Cloth, $1.50; paper, 50 cents. “Mr. Stevenson begins early to involve his hero in a tangle of difficulties, knows how to keep the reader in suspense, and how to give his work a certain spirit.”--_New York Tribune._ “There isn’t a dull page.... ‘Romance pure and simple’ describes the two stories in ‘Cadets of Gascony,’ and the romance is served up in a delightfully thrilling manner.”--_Los Angeles Herald._ AT ODDS WITH THE REGENT With frontispiece. Cloth, $1.50; paper, 50 cents “The tale is well worth reading. It opens in a most interesting manner, with some desperate sword play against a historical cut-throat--Cartouche--and half a dozen of his rogues, in a street of Paris at the time of the regency, when the Duc de Richelieu was at the height of his career as a heart-breaker and the especial lover of Louise de Valois.”--_Brooklyn Eagle._ “It deserves a place among the best of the recent historic novels, and will live no doubt long after the present vogue has become a thing of the past. It is a pleasure to read a romance of the past that is not filled with blood-curdling deeds after the style of the ‘shilling shocker,’ for Mr. Stevenson has written a story that appeals to the best side of one’s nature. He has characterized noble men and gentle women, who played fair always and were always true to themselves and the best of human impulses. The ‘Old Regime,’ as he pictures it, was a charming era when men bartered life freely, but held honor and plighted word dearer than existence. Altogether the story is good as to tone, artistic development of the plot, and finished style.”--_St. Louis Globe-Democrat._ J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. “_EASILY THE BOOK OF THE DAY_” _San Francisco Argonaut_