WILLIAM JORDAN, JUNIOR NEW NOVELS. 6s. each. =DELICIA=, and other Stories never before collected. By MARIE CORELLI. [_Third Impression._ =NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA= By KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN. With Illustrations by F. C. YOHN. =THE FIGHTING CHANCE= By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS. With Illustrations by FRED PEGRAM. [_Fifth Impression._ =THE HELPMATE= By MAY SINCLAIR. [_Second Impression._ =WILLIAM JORDAN, JUNIOR= By J. C. SNAITH. =CONFLICT= By CONSTANCE SMEDLEY. =THE GOOD COMRADE= By UNA L. SILBERRAD. [_Second Impression._ =THE SQUARE PEG= By W. E. NORRIS. =DOCTOR PONS= By PAUL GWYNNE. =THE ‘WIDDA-MAN’= By T. KINGSTON CLARKE. =BACHELOR BETTY= By WINIFRED JAMES. [_Third Impression._ =MARCUS HAY= By STANLEY HYATT. =THE THREE COMRADES= By GUSTAV FRENSSEN. =THE MEASURE OF THE RULE= By ROBERT BARR. =REED ANTHONY, COWMAN= By ANDY ADAMS. =A WALKING GENTLEMAN= By JAMES PRIOR. =THE PRICE OF SILENCE= By M. E. M. DAVIS. With Illustrations by GRISWOLD TYNG. WILLIAM JORDAN JUNIOR By J. C. SNAITH Author of “Broke of Covenden,” “Henry Northcote,” etc. LONDON ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. LTD. 1907 RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. WILLIAM JORDAN, JUNIOR I It had been raining all day in London. The beating of water, cold, monotonous and heavy upon the streets, had now acquired mystery from the darkness of a November night. The vague forms floating here and there through the haze of the lamps, which a few hours ago were easy to define, were full of strangeness, while the noise of the water as it gurgled into the sewers, and slopped from the spouts over the dark fronts of the shops had a remote significance. Now and again odd shapes would emerge from the curtain of the shadows: a wet policeman, a dog, a bedraggled walker of the streets, a sullen cabman, a lame horse. Over and above, round and about these phantasmal appearances, was the sound of continual water falling upon the great roar of London.