“Jean, every cent that I ever borrowed, I paid him when I came into my own money. I don’t know or care where you heard the story, but the only part of it that is true is that I did abuse his good nature and ask him to advance me out of his own fortune the amount that he held in trust for me.” The impossible hope conquered the fear in his face. He seized both of her hands in his and spoke breathlessly. “Jean, dearest, was that why you did not trust me?” She looked up at him with her eyes glowing with a new feeling. The love that had sprung from pity had grown into the love based on pride. “Do not let us talk of that now,” she whispered, “but of the present—and—and the future!” Stephen drew her to him with a passion which only those who have despaired can feel. He bowed his head and kissed her as for months he had dreamed of doing. He trembled violently as his lips met hers; trembled with wonder, with adoration, with perfect happiness. He held her tightly in his arms, as though afraid that all was not real, that he might yet lose her, as if he drew strength and life from the heart that beat against his own. The present redeemed the past and glorified the future. Through sin and shame, through failure and humiliation, he had at last found his strength, and before him in golden promise stretched the up grade. _Mr. Oppenheim’s Latest Novel_ THE ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE _By_ E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Illustrated by Will Foster. Cloth. $1.50 Mr. Oppenheim’s new story is a narrative of mystery and international intrigue that carries the reader breathless from page to page. It is the tale of the secret and world-startling methods employed by the Emperor of Japan through Prince Maiyo, his close kinsman, to ascertain the real reasons for the around-the-world cruise of the American fleet. The American Ambassador in London and the Duke of Denvenham, an influential Englishman, work hand in hand to circumvent the Oriental plot, which proceeds mysteriously to the last page. From the time when Mr. Hamilton Fynes steps from the _Lusitania_ into a special tug, in his mad rush towards London, to the very end, the reader is carried from deep mystery to tense situations, until finally the explanation is reached in a most unexpected and unusual climax. No man of this generation has so much facility of expression, so many technical resources, or so fine a power of narration as Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim.—_Philadelphia Inquirer._ Mr. Oppenheim is a past master of the art of constructing ingenious plots and weaving them around attractive characters.—_London Morning Post._ LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., PUBLISHERS 34 BEACON STREET, BOSTON _By the Author of “The Kingdom of Earth”_ PASSERS-BY _By_ ANTHONY PARTRIDGE With illustrations by Will Foster. Cloth. $1.50