Again she sank to earth for a space, and again she rose and breasted the last slope which separated her from her home. Then another life made vocal utterance and complaint of fate. A dog-fox barked out of darkness, and the lonely ululation struck very loud upon the silence. To the fellow-being who heard him, his forlorn protest spoke of a creature to be envied; for he was only hungry and time would ease his want. Among the burrows of the warren she threaded her way until, black against the night, towered Ditsworthy. And she opened the outer gate, reached the door, struck upon it and cried two words. Mournful they rose, and deep, and heavy with the weight of her torments. "Father! Mother!" They came down to her out of broken sleep. They found her collapsed and carried her in and roused the smouldering peat upon the hearth. Then to their questions as they crowded round her--men, women, boys, candle-lit, grotesque, hastily robed from bed--she answered slowly-- "Margaret is drowned--driven to it by me--and David have cast me out." THE END * * * * * * * * *GOOD FICTION* *FREDERICK PALMER’S THE BIG FELLOW* A big American novel with a big American for its hero, one of the fine, simple, magnetic big stories that everybody reads and that live for years. Illustrated. $1.50. *PHILLPOTTS and BENNETT’S THE STATUE* Scene, England. Period, to-day. A fine specimen of the diplomatic novel, big in conception, powerful in plot and action, vigorously drawn. Illustrated. $1.50. *TYLER de SAIX’S THE MAN WITHOUT A HEAD* One of the most exciting detective stories since "Sherlock Holmes." Scene is London, hero a new Scotland Yard man who has to "make good," and does it. $1.50. *E. J. RATH’S THE SIXTH SPEED* "Just an amazing yarn, set forth with so much vim and in so confident a vein that, though not really plausible, it is richly amusing."--_New York Times_. $1.50. *JAMES LOCKE’S THE STEM of the CRIMSON DAHLIA* "One doesn’t put it down after beginning it even though you know you must get up early to-morrow and it is now two o’clock."--_New York Times Saturday Review_. Illustrated. $1.50. *UPTON SINCLAIR’S THE METROPOLIS* H. G. Wells writes of it: "’The Metropolis’ is great. The author has all Zola’s power over massed detail." "It stands in a class by itself. It is a searchlight."--_San Francisco Examiner_. *EDWARD PEPLE’S THE SPITFIRE* A story of vim and dash. Romantic, exciting to a high degree. Color frontispiece by Howard Chandler Christy. Other drawings by J. V. McFall. 12mo. $1.50. *EDWARD PEPLE’S SEMIRAMIS* "At once a majestic and an animated tale. It has imagination. It has imagination and rhetoric. It has much. It will stir the reader."--_New York Sun_. 12mo. $1.50. *CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY’S The ADVENTURES of LADY SUSAN*