"'Iconoclast' indeed. Faith, that's the pot libelling the kettle most unjustly.--I say, Cospatric, just take that melodramatic old fool's gun away from him, and wring his neck if he won't behave himself.--My dear Mrs. Cromwell, I must really apologize for our companion. I assure you that nothing but stress of circumstances could have driven us into such dubious society. Well, the fun's all over now, and I hope you and Mr. Pether bear no ill-will. I'm sure Cospatric and I harbour no grudge." Mrs. Cromwell gave an order, the boat backed in to the shingle, and we found ourselves shaking hands with one another, as if we were dear friends who had always worked for one another's welfare. "Mentone and Paris will be our neighbourhoods for winter and summer," said Pether, "and you two men must contrive to beat us up somehow and compare notes over this mutual score." "Ladies are seldom averse to jewellery," said Haigh. "Will Mrs. Cromwell deign to accept from Mr. Cospatric and myself this small packet of diamonds, to be mounted as she sees fit?" In fact, for the space of half an hour we were fulsomely civil to one another; and then they bobbled off in the dinghy, and the yacht took them I know not where; and we, after putting Taltavull in one of the carriages, drove off ourselves to Palma in the other. "Faith," said Haigh, "it's a different man I am this day from when I saw you first in Genoa, old chappie. But after all this fresh air and exercise I must really go on the rampage for a bit. Come now, Palma for a few days, and then we'll hark back to the ugly cutter and go off somewhere else. Where shall we go?" "Note which way the wind blows, and start before it." "Right," said Haigh. "There's nothing like having definite plans beforehand." THE END. NELSON'S LIBRARY A Selection of the best Fiction by the most popular writers of the day, COPYRIGHT, and issued in handsome cloth binding, library style, at a popular price. _NOW READY._ White Fang JACK LONDON. The Octopus FRANK NORRIS. The Pit (_May 20_) " Sir John Constantine "Q." The Princess Passes C. N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON. "_Good print, strong binding, and a general handsomeness of appearance render them marvels of cheapness, quite apart from the value which their high literary character adds to them._"--PRESS OPINION. NELSON'S LIBRARY