"I don't mean any more than we all mean in our hearts," interrupted Chrysie, taking Hardress's hand in hers. "What's the use of world masters and world mistresses trying to hide things from each other? We four people here in this room run the world. I want to run this man, and you want to run that one; and they, of course, think they'll run us, which they won't! Anyhow, we're all willing to try that, and I think the best thing we can do is to sign, seal, and deliver the contract of the offensive and defensive alliance right here and now. You kiss, and we'll kiss, and that's all there is to it." And they kissed. _The Riverside Press Limited Edinburgh_ A Catalogue of the Books Published by Mr. John Long 13 & 14 Norris Street Haymarket, London (Late of 6 Chandos Street, Strand) March, 1903 Telegrams and Cables "Longing, London" New and Forthcoming Books pages 2 to 8. _March, 1903_ MR. JOHN LONG'S NEW AND FORTHCOMING BOOKS For the SPRING and SUMMER 1903 New Novels by the Best Authors Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, price 6s. each FUGITIVE ANNE By Mrs. Campbell Praed, Author of "Nadine," "Dwellers by the River," etc. AN OUTSIDER'S YEAR By Florence Warden, Author of "The House on the Marsh," "Something in the City," etc. CRIMSON LILIES By May Crommelin, Author of "A Daughter of England," "A Woman-Derelict," etc. THE WORLD MASTERS By George Griffith, Author of the "Angel of the Revolution," "Brothers of the Chain," etc. THE SHUTTERS OF SILENCE By G. B. Burgin, Author of "The Way Out," "A Wilful Woman," etc. BY THAMES AND TIBER By Mrs. Avlmer Gowing, Author of "As Cæsar's Wife," "A Touch of the Sun," etc. THE ARCADIANS By J. S. Fletcher, Author of "When Charles the First was King," "The Three Days' Terror," etc. With Eight Full Page Illustrations on Art Paper, by G. P. Rhodes. AN UNWISE VIRGIN By Mrs. Coulson Kernahan, Author of "Trewinnot of Guy's," "No Vindication," etc. THE PARISH DOCTOR By Alec Cook. Vivid impressions of life in a contemporary suburban parish. BENEATH THE VEIL By Adeline Sergeant, Author of "The Story of a Penitent Soul," "The Future of Phyllis," etc. THE CAR OF PHOEBUS By Robert James Lees, Author of "Through the Mists," "The Heretic," etc. THE LAST FORAY By R. H. Forster. (A Thrilling Tale of the Border Raiders of the Sixteenth Century.) THE MACHINATIONS OF JANET By Sarah Tytler, Author of "Citoyenne Jacqueline," "The Courtship of Sarah," etc. THRALDOM By Helen Prothero-Lewis (Mrs. James J. G. Pugh), Author of "Hooks of Steel," "Her Heart's Desire," "A Lady of My Own," etc. THE JADE EYE By Fergus Hume, Author of "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab," "The Silent House in Pimlico," etc. REMEMBRANCE By Mrs. Lovett Cameron, Author of "Midsummer Madness," "A Woman's 'No,'" etc. SWEET "DOLL" OF HADDON HALL By J. E. Muddock, Author of "Fair Rosalind," "A Woman's Checkmate," etc. HIS MASTER PURPOSE