m to Jack
... Jack o' Judgment!"

They were his last words.

* * * * *

A year later First Commissioner Sir Stafford King received a letter from
South America. It contained nothing but the photograph of a very
good-looking man, and a singularly pretty woman, who held in her lap a
very tiny baby.

"Here is the last of the Boundary Gang," said Sir Stafford to Maisie.
"It is the one happy ending that has emerged from so much misery and
evil."

"Why, it is Lollie Marsh!"

"Lollie Crewe, I think her name is now," said Stafford. "It was queer
how Sir Stanley recognised the only human members of the gang."

"Then they got away after all?" said the girl. "I've often wondered what
happened at that aerodrome."

Stafford laughed.

"Oh, yes," he said drily, "they got away. They left at twenty minutes
past three, after a long argument with the aviator, a man named
Cartwright."

"How do you know?" she asked.

"Sir Stanley and I watched them go off," said Stafford.

He looked at the photograph again and shook his head.

"There were times when the Judgment of Jack was very merciful," he said
soberly.

THE END

_WARD, LOCK & CO.'S NEW FICTION_

Blindfolded

By

Dorothy Rogers

This novel has remarkable qualities. Its plot is strong and holds a
dramatic surprise of tragic intensity. The book tells the story of Anne
Gerrish, how she is stifled by the humdrum life at Norton with her
aunts, how she leaves them to wring from life a measure of individual
freedom and happiness, and how she finds both, only to end once more
where she began. To use a metaphor from music, her life is a piece
marked "Da capo." BLINDFOLDED is by far the best novel Miss Rogers has
yet written, a book full of truth and sincerity.

_Other Stories by this Author:_

If To-day be Sweet
The Standby

"A novel of considerable charm, dramatic interest, and admirable
character delineation."

_WARD, LOCK & CO.'S NEW FICTION_

X Esquire

By

Leslie Charteris

A new form of tobacco had been discovered and was being put on the
market by a syndicate consisting of rather dubious characters. The
campaign was to start with a free distribution of millions of packets of
cigarettes made from the new leaf. But the whole consignment of the
tobacco was burnt, and one by one the members of the projected syndicate
were assassinated by a mysterious person who called himself "X Esquire."
Who w