"My dear David," she replied, "I have forgotten nothing, only I think that I have learned a little. I am still full of family tradition, proud of my share of it, if you will, but somehow or other I don't think that it is more than a part, and a very small part, of our daily life. So let there be an end of that, please. You have done great things and I am proud of you, and I have done nothing except suffer myself to be born into a very ancient and occasionally disreputable family.... Oh, I must tell you!" she went on, with a little laugh. "What do you think father was settling down to do when I came out?" David shook his head. "I have no idea." "I left him seated at his desk," she told him. "He is writing a line to Mr. Wadham, Junior, asking him to-day's price of the Pluto Oil shares." THE END NOVELS by E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM He is past master of the art of telling a story. He has humor, a keen sense of the dramatic, and a knack of turning out a happy ending just when the complications of the plot threaten worse disasters.--_New York Times_. Mr. Oppenheim has few equals among modern novelists. He is prolific, he is untiring in the invention of mysterious plots, he is a clever weaver of the plausible with the sensational, and he has the necessary gift of facile narrative.--_Boston Transcript_. A Prince of Sinners Mysterious Mr. Sabin The Master Mummer A Maker of History The Malefactor A Millionaire of Yesterday The Man and His Kingdom The Betrayal The Yellow Crayon The Traitors Enoch Strone A Sleeping Memory A Lost Leader The Great Secret The Avenger The Long Arm of Mannister The Governors Jeanne of the Marshes The Illustrious Prince The Lost Ambassador The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown A Daughter of the Marionis Berenice The Moving Finger Havoc The Lighted Way The Tempting of Tavernake The Mischief-Maker The World's Great Snare The Survivor Those Other Days A People's Man The Vanished Messenger Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo The Double Traitor The Way of These Women Mr. Marx's Secret An Amiable Charlatan The Kingdom of the Blind The Hillman The Cinema Murder Bernard The Pawns Count The Zeppelin's Passenger The Curious Quest The Wicked Marquis LITTLE, BROWN & CO., Publishers, BOSTON End of Project Gutenberg's The Wicked Marquis, by E. Phillips Oppenheim