Once more, to employ one of the favourite quotations of King Alcinoues, “I PASSED BY THE WALLS OF BALCLUTHA, AND THEY WERE DESOLATE.”  The King, I may be allowed to add, finds New York quite a good place to talk in—­though he is frank in saying that he prefers a coral island.

R. Le G.

THE END

Transcriber’s Notes: 
List of A.L.  Burt Company’s Popular Copyright Fiction removed. 
Dash lengths standardised. 
Page 262:  Changed intance to instance
Page 295:  Changed Monto Cristo to Monte Cristo. 
Page 102:  Changed mooonlit (non dialogue) to moonlit.