looked at Anne and was surprised to find that she was white with
indignation.

"I must tell them," she whispered passionately.

"Oh! no, please," I whispered back. "They wouldn't believe you. It would
only add another shocking detail to the next exposition of the scandal."

"Detestable people," she said, in a voice that must have been heard by our
gossip, although she evidently did not realise the application of the
description to herself and her friend.

"Let's be thankful," I whispered to Anne, "that I'm no longer writing this
sort of piffle to amuse them. If it hadn't been for you..."

The two women had left the theatre before the end of the third act, but
long before that Anne had seen the humour of this true story of our
elopement.

THE END

The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the Macmillan books
on kindred subjects.

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MAY SINCLAIR'S NEW NOVEL

Mary Olivier: A Life

BY MAY SINCLAIR,

Author of "The Tree of Heaven," etc.

Cloth, 12mo.

No novel of the war period made a more profound impression than did Miss
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A woman's life, her thoughts, sensations and emotions directly presented,
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The main interest lies in Mary Olivier's search for Reality, her relations
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EDEN PHILLPOTTS' NEW NOVEL

Storm in a Teacup

BY EDEN PHILLPOTTS

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_Cloth, 12mo._

This carries on Mr. Phillpotts' series of novels dealing with the human
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