“And we shall always sympathise with you in your tragic state of overclothing,” playfully said Gwen. “My last words to you, Miss Towerbridge,” sententiously spoke Sir Edward, as he stiffly bowed farewell, “are these: You will very soon regret your rash enterprise.” The surgeon went slowly out of the door, which he closed behind him with a sharp click; and as he crossed the hall he muttered between his teeth, “It is the first time I have seen an absolute case of contagious insanity.” THE END COLSTON AND COY. LIMITED, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CURTIS YORKE’S Latest Novels =OLIVE KINSELLA= (Shortly) =6/—= =DELPHINE= (Fourth Edition) =6/—= =THE GIRL IN GREY= (Fifth Edition) =6/—= =A FLIRTATION WITH TRUTH= (New Edition) =2/6= THE PRESS ON CURTIS YORKE =The Times.=—“Curtis Yorke, in her many novels, has a happy gift for portraying the tender emotions.... There is always a charm about Curtis Yorke’s books—partly because she has the gift of natural, sympathetic dialogue.” =Saturday Review.=—“The novels of Curtis Yorke are too well known to need introduction. They have already their own public. They are bright, lively and vivacious.” =Morning Post.=—“Whether grave or gay, the author is a raconteur whose imagination and vivacity are unfailing. Few, moreover, have in the same degree the versatility which enables him to provoke peals of laughter and move almost to tears.... The writer is natural, realistic and entertaining.” =Spectator.=—“Curtis Yorke always writes bright and readable novels.” =Literature.=—“A powerful book, as are all Curtis Yorke’s novels.” =Scotsman.=—“The name of Curtis Yorke must always command respect in the minds of all novel-readers.” =Sheffield Independent.=—“A writer of uncommon power and promise.” =Literary World.=—“There are few novels that are at the same time so passionate and so perfectly harmless as those of Curtis Yorke.” =The Bookman.=—“Curtis Yorke’s reputation for talent and vigour as a storyteller is already established.” =Manchester Courier.=—“Curtis Yorke’s work has been marked from the first with singular insight into poor human nature, with tolerance towards the ugly and inevitable ills that spoil this beautiful world, and with literary ability of a high order.” =Glasgow Herald.=—“One naturally expects from this writer a wholly enjoyable story.” =Star.=—“Curtis Yorke writes with a sure touch. She never deviates from a path of pure naturalness.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MARY E. MANN’S GREAT NOVEL IN SUMMER SHADE