She obeyed. The gray eyes held hers like a magnet. “I think no. You don’t belong to the public, you belong to me.” The color ran up into her face to the edge of her hair. “Oh, Gam,” she whispered on a rising breath, “I’m so relieved.” He dropped his hands from her shoulders and drew her close to him. With his cheek against hers he said softly: “You didn’t think I was that kind of a fool, did you?” The sun had risen as they talked, at first slowly peering with a radiant eye over the mountain’s shoulder, then shaking itself free of tree-top and rock-point, and swimming up into the blue. The top of the range stood all glowing and golden, with here and there a white peak, snowily enameled. The rows of pines were overlaid with a rosy brilliance, their long shadows slanting down the slopes as if scurrying away from the flood of heat and light. The clear blues and amethysts that veiled the hollow of the camp were dispersed; the films of mist melted; a quivering silvery sparkle played over the river shallows. In the clearing beams the life of the hive below seemed to swarm and fill the air with the clamor of its awakening. The man and woman, looking down, saw the toiling world turning to its day’s work--the red dust rising beneath grinding hoof and wheel, the cars sliding swiftly on their narrow tracks, heard the shouts of men, the hum of machinery, and through all and over all, the regular throb of the engines like the heart which animated this isolated world of labor. Barron looked at his domain for an attentive moment. “There,” he said, pointing down, “is where I belong. That’s my life,--to work in wild places with men. And yours is with me, my prima donna. We go together, side by side, I working and you singing by the way.” A LIST _of_ IMPORTANT FICTION THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY DIFFERENT AND DELIGHTFUL UNDER THE ROSE A Story of the Loves of a Duke and a Jester By FREDERIC S. ISHAM Author of The Strollers In “Under the Rose” Mr. Isham has written a most entertaining book--the plot is unique; the style is graceful and clever; the whole story is pervaded by a spirit of sunshine and good humor, and the ending is a happy one. Mr. Christy’s pictures mark a distinct step forward in illustrative art. There is only one way, and it is an entertaining one, to find out what is “Under the Rose”--read it. * * * * * “No one will take up ‘Under the Rose’ and lay it down before completion; many will even return to it for a repeated reading.”--_Book News._ “Mr. Isham tells all of his fanciful, romantic tale delightfully. The reader who loves romance, intrigue and adventure, love-seasoned, will find it here.”--_The Lamp._ With Illustrations in Six Colors by Howard Chandler Christy 12mo, Cloth, Price, $1.50 A GOOD DETECTIVE STORY THE FILIGREE BALL By ANNA KATHERINE GREEN Author of “The Leavenworth Case”