id, "to get yanked around by this bundle of
electricity. The only thing that's restsome here, is that boy. Ain't you
got no dance in your shanks?" Uncle Sid flicked his whip threateningly
at the boy, who skipped aside smiling. "That's right. You keep it up
till you've skipped the whole kit an' kerboodle into this wagon, an'
I'll take the lot o' you to Palm Wells. That's what I'm here for."

They drove over a winding, palm-bordered road, through spicy orange
groves, through ragged-barked, spindling groups of eucalyptus, and drew
up before the doors of the Palm Wells cottage.

Ralph and Helen came out to meet their guests. Perhaps Ralph would have
chosen to be more dignified in the welcoming of his friends, but a
wriggling, crowing mass of pink and white prevented him.

"There he is!" groaned Uncle Sid. "There he is! The most wonderful thing
in the whole world, exceptin' sixty hundred millions more just like him.
He can't talk Latin nor Greek, nor anythin' but "googoo," when he's
happy, an' "yow" when his feelin's are troublin' him, an' he don't know
any better'n to play horse with his daddy's transit when he finds it
lyin' round loose, just like any other good-for-nuthin' baby."

Published by LITTLE, BROWN, & CO.

MYSTERIOUS MR. SABIN

_A Spell-binding Creation_

By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM

Author of "Anna the Adventuress," etc.

Deals with an intrigue of international moment--the fomenting of a war
between Great Britain and Germany and the restoration of the Bourbon
monarchy in France as a consequence. Intensely readable for the dramatic
force with which the story is told, the absolute originality of the
underlying creative thought, and the strength of all the men and women
who fill the pages.--_Pittsburg Times._

Not for long has so good a story of the kind been published, and the
book is the more commendable because the literary quality of its
construction has not been slighted.--_Chicago Record-Herald._

THE WEIRD PICTURE

By JOHN R. CARLING

Author of "The Viking's Skull," "The Shadow of the Czar," etc.

When a man is summoned home to attend the marriage to another man of the
woman he loves, and when the bridegroom is his own brother, the
situation is certainly very striking. The wedding does not take place,
for the bridegroom is murdered. The scene in which the victim appears to
his brother, on the latter's arrival at Dover, is singularly impressive.
All this is disclosed in the opening c