right to ask?"

The drooping head bent still lower, a softer flush suffused the quiet
face.

Firmstone took the girl's unresisting hands in his own.

"Can't you give me my answer, dear? You have come to be all the world to
me. You are going away for the sake of your friends. Will you come back
some time for mine?"

Elise slowly raised her eyes to his. He read his answer. There was a
slight answering pressure, then her hands were gently withdrawn.
Firmstone stood aside. Elise and Madame moved over the threshold, the
door swinging to behind them, not quite shut; then it opened, just
enough to show a flushed face, with teasing, roguish eyes.

"I forgot to ask. Is that all, Mr. Minion?"

Then the door closed with a decided click.

THE END

Other Book to Read

By Arthur Stanwood Pier

Author of "The Pedagogues"

THE TRIUMPH

The Triumph has fire and pathos and romance and exhilarating humor. It
is a capital story that will keep a reader's interest from the first
appearance of its hero, the young doctor Neal Robeson, to his final
triumph--his triumph over himself and over the lawless, turbulent
oil-drillers, his success in his profession and in his love affair. It
displays a delightful appreciation of the essential points of typical
American characters, a happy outlook on everyday life, a vigorous
story-telling ability working in material that is thrilling in interest,
in a setting that is picturesque and unusual. The action takes place in
a little western Pennsylvania village at the time of the oil fever, and
a better situation can scarcely be found. Mr. Pier's account of the
fight between the outraged villagers and the oil-drillers around a
roaring, blazing gas well is a masterpiece of story telling.

_Illustrations by W. D. Stevens_

By James Weber Linn

Author of "The Second Generation"

THE CHAMELEON

The author uses as his theme that trait in human nature which leads men
and women to seek always the lime light, to endeavor always to be
protagonists even at the expense of the truth. His book is a study of
that most interesting and pertinent type in modern life, the
sentimentalist, the man whose emotions are interesting to him merely as
a matter of experience, and shows the development of such a character
when he comes into contact with normal people. The action of the novel
passes in a college town and the hero comes to his grief through his
attempt to increase his appearance of i