d and realistic story.

There are few better story-tellers than Mr. Joseph Hocking, especially
when he is dealing with his beloved Cornwall. His stories are
thrillingly interesting, and rivet the attention of the reader from
beginning to end.

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The Firm Hand

By

Harold Bindloss

The Croziers are stubborn North-country yeomen, whose temperament
accounts for the misfortunes that follow the house. Isaac, the last of
the old parsimonious school, pushed on by his avaricious wife, cheats
his brother and seizes the inheritance of his nephew, who is
supposititiously killed by accident in the dark. Mark, another nephew,
and the girl he marries, stand for a fresh and generous type, but he
has inherited the family temperament and feels his business is to solve
the puzzle of his brother's death. The background for the story is
English moorland and Canadian forest.

_Other recent Stories by this Author:_

The Mountaineers The League of the Leopard
The Man from the Wilds The Allinson Honour
The Impostor The Pioneer
Musgrave's Luck Hawtrey's Deputy
The Head of the House The Keystone Block
Dearham's Inheritance The Wilderness Patrol
The Trustee The Lute Player
Agatha's Fortune A Debt of Honour
The Broken Net A Risky Game
Askew's Victory Carmen's Messenger
The Dust of Conflict Sadie's Conquest
A Damaged Reputation Helen the Conqueror
Footsteps Sour Grapes

"Mr. Bindloss's novels come as a welcome periodical sedative after a
dose of the feverish volubility indulged in by some modern
novelists."--_The Times_.

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Captain Lucifer

By

Ben Bolt

Young Sir Harry Plaxton, a blood in the times of the highwaymen, riding
to take up his inheritance, had a fancy to enter his house on Christmas
Day. How he did so, and what adventures met him by the way, how he
came upon a country inn of unsavoury reputation and was scrutinized by
a rogue and what followed, how he rescued a maid and fought with a
notorious pirate, and how the Golden Peacock was found and afterward
lost again--all this makes a book of romance and adventure such as even
Mr. Ben Bolt has not given us before.

_By the same Author:_

The Mystery of Belvoir Mansions
The