As he
had first seen her, playing cards with her father in the
drawing-room at Coton Manor, as he had last seen her, pacing the
deck of the _Windward_, intoxicated with her freedom, as he saw her
now, bending her head over the plague-poisoned body of the coolie,
she was the same tender, resolute, passionate Frida, who ruined her
life and glorified it, laid it down and took it up again at her
will. And as he saw--would always see her, in this new light of her
death, she was smiling, as if she defied him to see anything
pathetic in it.

She had loved the world, the mystic maddening beauty of it, the
divine darkness and glory of it. She had taken to her heart the
rapture and the pain of it. She had stretched out her hands to the
unexplored, to the unchanged and changing, the many-faced,
incomprehensible, finite, infinite Whole.

And she had flung it all up; for what?

For a 'rickshaw coolie's life?--Or for something--yet--beyond?

The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the
Macmillan novels

S. R. CROCKETT'S NEW NOVEL

SANDY

By S. R. CROCKETT

Author of "Patsy," "The Stickit Minister," etc.

_With frontispiece in colors by R. Pearson Lawrence; decorated
Cloth, 12mo, $1.35 net; postpaid $1.47._

Up from his country home Sandy goes to London. And there he has his
great adventure. What it is and the story of his success and of his
love is told by Mr. Crockett in a fashion which will convince many
people that this is quite the most satisfactory novel he has ever
written. Full of the vigor of life, with a wit and humor that win
the reader even as they won his associates, Sandy is a cheery kind
of hero and the tale of his experiences of that inspiring type which
fires men--and women, too--on to the accomplishment of big things.
No less appealing a figure is V. V., the girl with whom Sandy falls
in love and who long before the book's close becomes his life
partner. Altogether "Sandy" thrills and exhilarates as does little
of the present day fiction.

"There's always a good story in a Crockett novel, and has been
ever since the days of 'The Stickit Minister.' Sandy is a typical
new Scot, most modern and most masterful of all heroes in current
fiction.... As winning a heroine as any one could desire is
skillfully wrought into the warp and woof of Mr. Crockett's
fabric of narrative. Popular favor is likely to score one for
'Sandy'."--_Phila. North American._

NEW MACMILLAN FICT