one out to nurse him, and the struggle between her fierce
maternal hunger to hold him at her side and his desire for freedom from
her obsessing influence, makes a story of singular strength and
interest, with an unusual climax of dramatic intensity. Side by side
with this more sombre theme there runs a beautiful romance, and Miss
Katharine Tynan is seen at her best in the drawing of a lovable girl.
_Other popular Stories by this Author:_
Princess Katharine Dear Lady Bountiful
My Love's but a Lassie The Briar Bush Maid
The House on the Bogs The Heiress of Wyke
Pat the Adventurer The Wild Adventure
Miss Phipps The Face in the Picture
"Clean wholesome love stories, free from intrigue and sensationalism,
and containing well-drawn characters and good dialogue."
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That Fool Peter
By
Ashley Milner
Peter Hawkins, a clerk with ideals, has a youthful escapade with a
workgirl named Evie Wills. But remorse dogs him ever afterwards, and
when, while he is leading an unhappy married life, he has the sudden
opportunity of saving Evie from moral disaster, he rises to the height
of his chance and fulfils his ideals. But he is misunderstood by his
wife, who sues him for a divorce but fails to bring conclusive
evidence. The book ends happily, and throughout its course is a fine
picture of a rather humdrum soul seeking--and reaching--the heights of
opportunity and spiritual victory.
_By the same Author:_
And then Comes Love
Dawn Breaking Red
"Mr. Milner tells a story well, with a vividness of incident, and he
has a nice sense of humour."--_Northern Whig_.
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The Money Barons
By
John Haslette Vahey
Dexter's ranch was wanted by Kelly who had projected a railway through
it, but Dexter had reasons for believing Kelly had tried to murder him.
A plausible rascal, Page, pressed his services upon Dexter, to expose
Kelly, but Page was employed by a greater rascal called Bull, who had a
whole staff of gunmen upon his pay roll. From then onwards the story
moves as swiftly and unerringly as the most hardened reader could
desire, and what Dexter found on his ranch and how he married a maid in
the enemy's camp must be left to Mr. Vahey to tell.
_By the same Author:_
Fiddlestrings
Down River
Up North
The Storm Lady
Payment Down
"Well told
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