me the chance of helping you--now. If you will trust
yourself to me I will not relinquish my trust until I give you safely
into your father's keeping. You _will_ trust me?"

"Yes, Dr. Anstice." She held out her hands to him as she spoke in token
of sincerity. "I would trust you--to the end of the world!"

* * * * *

And as he took her hands in his and vowed himself afresh to her service
Anstice knew, with a great lightening of his spirit, that during the
night march over the desert, that which he had almost dared to hope
might happen, had indeed come to pass; that the chains with which his
own action had shackled his soul had fallen from him for ever, and that
full atonement for Hilda Ryder's death had been made at last.

* * * * *

FAMOUS NOVELS BY KATHLYN RHODES

THE LURE OF THE DESERT
THE DESERT DREAMERS
THE WILL OF ALLAH
SWEET LIFE
AFTERWARDS
FLOWER OF GRASS
THE MAKING OF A SOUL

_In cloth, with attractive pictorial wrapper, 1/6 net._

Vivid descriptions of the entrancing scenery of the East, incident
crowding upon incident, romantic situations, exciting intrigues,
unexpected denouements hold and absorb the interest from start to
finish.

KATHLYN RHODES
is the assured success of 1918,
as GERTRUDE PAGE was the success of 1916
and MABEL BARNES-GRUNDY of 1917.

Fired with enthusiasm to win fame as a novelist, Kathlyn Rhodes began
her career before her school days were ended. "Sweet Life" followed
shortly afterwards; and the appreciation which this won encouraged the
authoress to follow quickly with other stories. Choice of subject she
holds to be of primary importance. With the war depressing us all
around, she believes that many readers prefer stories that permit them
for the time to forget it; and this she achieves by her delightful
flights of fancy through the realms of many lands.

These are the stories to send to your soldier friends to combat the
horrors of warfare and the tedium of the hospitals; and the stories to
read yourself to relieve the weary vigils we must keep at home.

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