The other was Stumpy, small, insignificant, quiet, with a little limp.

They clashed over the greatest question that may come to men—­the love of a girl.

She took Sir Eustace just because she could not help herself—­and was swept ahead on the tide of his passion.

And then, when she needed help most—­on the day before the wedding—­Stumpy saved her—­and the quiet flame of his eyes was more than the brute power of his brother.

How did it all come out?  Did she choose wisely?  Is Greatheart more to be desired than great riches?  The answer is the most vivid and charming story that Ethel M. Dell has written in a long time.

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The Hundredth Chance

By

Ethel M. Dell

Author of “The Way of an Eagle,” “The Knave of Diamonds,” “The Rocks of
Valpre,” “The Keeper of the Door,” “Bars of Iron,” etc.

12 deg..  Color Frontispiece by Edna Crompton

The hero is a man of masterful force, of hard and rough exterior, who can remake a human being with the assurance of success with which he breaks a horse.  Toward the heroine he is all love, patience, solicitude, but she sees in him only the brute and the master.  To break down her hostility, and defeat unscrupulous craft which draws her relentlessly to the verge of disaster, the hero can rely only on the weight of his personality and innate tenderness.  It is the Hundredth Chance; on it he stakes all.

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Blue Aloes

By Cynthia Stockley

Author of “Poppy,” “The Claw,” “Wild Honey,” etc.

No writer can so unfailingly summons and materialize the spirit of the weird, mysterious South Africa as can Cynthia Stockley.  She is a favored medium through whom the great Dark Continent its tales unfolds.

A strange story is this, of a Karoo farm,—­a hedge of Blue Aloes, a cactus of fantastic beauty, which shelters a myriad of creeping things,—­a whisper and a summons in the dead of the night,—­an odor of death and the old.

There are three other stories in the book, stories throbbing with the sudden, intense passion and the mystic atmosphere of the Veldt.

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The Beloved Sinner

By

Rachel Swete Macnamara

Author of the “Fringe of the Desert,” “The Torch of Life,” and “Drifting
Waters”

One of the very prettiest of springtime romances—­a tale of exuberant young spirits intoxicated with the springtime of living, of love gone adventuring on the rough road—­a story, humorous with the gay impudences of a young Eve who is half-afraid and altogether delighted with her fairy-prince.