eds subscribe to a few doctrines he does
not believe, who is harmed by that? These things are much to women, and
we, to whom they are less, can afford to yield. I often fancy your
mother would like to go back to the faith of her childhood,--and if she
ever expresses the wish, I will not hinder her. When I married her, all
was different: I could not have become a Catholic then. Nor indeed can I
do so now. Blaise Tripault and I are too old for new tricks: we must not
change our colours at this late day: we are survivals from a bygone
state of things. But you, my son, belong to a new France. Our great
Henri said. 'Surely Paris is worth a mass': and I dare say this lady is
as much to you as Paris was to him."

So the Church gained a convert and I a wife. Hugues and Mathilde came to
live on our estate. And Mlle. Celeste, in course of time, was married to
a raw young Gascon as lean as a lath, as poor as a fiddler, and as
thirsty as a Dutchman, but with moustaches twice as long as those of
Brignan de Brignan.

THE END.

Works of Robert Neilson Stephens

An Enemy to the King

The Continental Dragoon

The Road to Paris

A Gentleman Player

Philip Winwood

Captain Ravenshaw

The Mystery of Murray Davenport

The Bright Face of Danger

L. C. Page and Company

The Mystery of Murray Davenport.

By ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS, author of "An Enemy to the King," "Philip
Winwood," etc.

In his latest novel, Mr. Stephens has made a radical departure from the
themes of his previous successes. Turning from past days and distant
scenes, he has taken up American life of to-day as his new field,
therein proving himself equally capable. Original in its conception,
striking in its psychologic interest, and with a most perplexing love
problem, "The Mystery of Murray Davenport" is the most vital and
absorbing of all Mr. Stephens's novels, and will add not a little to his
reputation.

"This is easily the best thing that Mr. Stephens has yet done. Those
familiar with his other novels can best judge the measure of this
praise, which is generous."--_Buffalo News._

"Mr. Stephens won a host of friends through his earlier volumes, but we
think he will do still better work in his new field if the present
volume is a criterion."--_N. Y. Com. Advertiser._

The Daughter of the Dawn.

By R. HODDER.

This is a powerful story of adventure and mystery, its scene New
Zealand. In sust