... By MAUD H. YARDLEY I. Mrs. Wentworth Bailey put her toes upon the fender-bar, surveyed the shining patent leather, and smiled the smile of the well content. It was her inward boast that she allowed nothing and nobody to come between her and her pet wishes and up to now she had little reason to consider that inward boast a vain one. She was the mother of five beautiful daughters, and her object ...

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... t^ioiiSS^S J By R. RAMSAY I {This story is, by the author1 s own admission, a consequence of our recent discussion, 11 Sex and the Short Story11 As a result of that discussion, Miss Ramsay has been moved to show us, in vigorous outline, the evil consequences of the quality of Distrust. In doing this, she, incidentally, shows us herself how it is possible to pursue a problem of real life 11 and ...

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... jByGuyLys/e THE Vicar's daughter played the Dead March as only the Vicar's daughter could; the Squire bore up under it for a full minute, and then whis pered (most audibly) to his sole companion in the front pew, Let's get out of this. The two men made their way down the aisle. The Squire was a white-haired old man with a keen hard face; the other was a conventional Major, khaki-clad and ...

... f 5%e .yhzvv C No. VII.-- HIS MAJESTY'S DUCK-PUNT By RICHARD PINK \_uwmg to me very great success of mis series o j articles, we nave now arranged for a jurtnet series. At uie same time we have pleasure in publishing, jor the first time, the name of our brilliant contributor Mr. Richard Pink. 1 H.M.S. Ten-yen was neither speedy, lovely, nor comfortable. Her designers had, apparently, taken ...

... Jjytfiistin 7iarri30nj_ HELEN, Countess of Mountjoy, peeping round a corner of the red blind, looked up and down the street. The window looked out upon one of those cloistered squares still to be found in the great city. Gaunt and sooted stumps, that in summer were trees, stood in the middle of it, flanked in with the usual spiked railings. From the few lamps sparsely dotted round the square, ...

... THE END OF THE ROAD BY ARCHIBALD SULLIVAN ik A TRAGEDY OF TWO MARRIAGES i I MUST speak to you for a moment, he said, catching at her arm. You can't have any possible reason-- the case is over, and we're both free. Just as free as if we'd never met-- never been married. une nana wem. quicKiy upwaiu, icaujusung tiic thick folds of her chiffon veil. The noise and hurrying feet of the Law ...

... E The Ca/ I the East n\^^BY^TIM GR A nville^ FOR many weary months the little Army had waited on the fringe of the desert for the enemy that never came. Every one was bored stiff, and impatience and ennui were taking malignant forms. Phe Brigadier [was almost unapproachable individual C.O.'s were nearly all at feud, and even the different battalions had declared a sort of war on one another. ...

... IN THE GRIP OF A VICE BY THOMAS TATTENHAM (Author of The Girl Through the Mist, etc., etc.) A j 5 A TALE 1ft OF POLITICAL 1/ I BLACKMAIL 1 Approximate date of Narrative, February, 1915] THIS suspense, Mr. Spofforth-- the Con servative candidate approached, with out stretched hand, his young Radical opponent this suspense is terrible, is it not? The counting of votes was in progress at ...

... By HERBERT H VAHEY MRS. JACK TRENTON had her own troubles. The world knew little or nothing about them, but they were none the less real on that account; no easier to bear because she had skilfully kept them out of the searching light of publicity. Indeed, the fact of concealment now threatened to add to, rather than diminish, her discomfiture. Tears of acute self-pity dimmed her eyes as she ...

... THE NEAR HEREAFTER I PROBLEMS OF THE COMING PEACE II. Will There Be Revolution WHILE the House of Commons debates as to how best to capture German trade when the war is over, men who know most of industry are wondering whether we shall keep our own. They realise that everything depends not on treaties, but on men, and from the particularly blatant goose that lays our industrial eggs no one ...