Louise sat still, with the tears blurring the sight before her. They were not only proud and happy tears, but they were tears of humble gratitude that it was Miss Pettrell, and not Mrs. Harley, whom her husband was leading on to share his triumph. She did not think her own desert was great; but she could not tax herself with any wrong that she had not at least tried to repair; she felt that what she had escaped she could not have suffered, and that Heaven was merciful to her weakness, if not just to her merit. Perhaps this was why she was so humble and so grateful. There arose in her a vague fear as to what Godolphin might do in the case of a Salome who was certainly no more subordinated to his Haxard than Miss Havisham's, or what new demands he might not make upon the author; but Maxwell came back to her with a message from the actor, which he wished conveyed with his congratulations upon the success of the piece. This was to tell her of his engagement to Miss Pettrell, which had suddenly taken place that day, and which he thought there could be no moment so fit to impart to her as that of their common triumph. Louise herself went behind at the end of the piece, and made herself acceptable to both the artists in her cordial good wishes. Neither of them resented the arch intention with which she said to Godolphin, "I suppose you won't mind such a beautiful Salome as Miss Pettrell has given us, now that it's to be all in the family." Miss Pettrell answered for him with as complete an intelligence: "Oh, I shall know how to subdue her to his Haxard, if she ever threatens the peace of the domestic hearth." That Salome has never done so in any serious measure Maxwell argues from the fact that, though the Godolphins have now been playing his piece together for a whole year since their marriage, they have not yet been divorced. THE END. * * * * * AN OPEN-EYED CONSPIRACY. $1 00. THE LANDLORD AT LION'S HEAD. $1 15. STOPS OF VARIOUS QUILLS. Illustrated by HOWARD PYLE. $2 50. IMPRESSIONS AND EXPERIENCES. $1 50. A PARTING AND A MEETING. llustrated. $1 00. THE DAY OF THEIR WEDDING. Illustrated. $1 25. MY LITERARY PASSIONS. $1 50. A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA. $1 50. THE COAST OF BOHEMIA. Illustrated. $1 50. THE WORLD OF CHANCE. $1 50. THE QUALITY OF MERCY. $1 50. AN IMPERATIVE DUTY. $1 00. THE SHADOW OF A DREAM. $1 00. ANNIE KILBURN. $1 50. APRIL HOPES. $1 50. CRITICISM AND FICTION. With Portrait. $1 00. A BOY'S TOWN. Ill'd. $1 25. A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES. 2 Vols., $2 00. MODERN ITALIAN POETS. With Portraits. $2 00. CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY, and Other Stories. Illustrated. $1 25. THE MOUSE-TRAP, and Other Farces. Illustrated. $1 00. MY YEAR IN A LOG-CABIN. Illustrated. 50 cents. A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN. Illustrated. 50 cents.