his
eagerness.

"Well, Strings?" inquired the King, good-humouredly; for there was now
no cloud in his sky.

"Let me play the exit for the villains?" he pleaded unctuously. "The old
fiddle is just bursting with tunes."

"You shall, Strings," replied his Majesty, "and on a Cremona. From
to-day, you lead the royal orchestra."

"Odsbud," cried Strings, gleefully, "I can offer Jack Hart an
engagement."

"Just retribution, Strings," laughed Nell, happily. "Can you do as much
for Nell, and forgive her, Sire?"

"It is I who should ask your pardon, Nell," exclaimed the King,
ecstatically, throwing both arms passionately about her. "You are
Charles's queen; you should be England's."

_So the story ends, as all good stories should, in a perfect, unbroken
dream of love._

EPILOGUE

Spoken by Miss Crosman for the first time in New York at the Bijou
Theatre on the evening of October 9, 1900:

_Good friends, before we end the play,
I beg you all a moment stay:
I warn my sex, by Nell's affair,
Against a rascal called Adair!_

_If lovers' hearts you'd truly scan,
Odsfish, perk up, and be a man!_

GROSSET & DUNLAP'S DRAMATIZED NOVELS

Original, sincere and courageous--often amusing--the kind that are
making theatrical history.

MADAME X. By Alexandre Bisson and J. W. McConaughy. Illustrated with
scenes from the play.

A beautiful Parisienne became an outcast because her husband would not
forgive an error of her youth. Her love for her son is the great final
influence in her career. A tremendous dramatic success.

THE GARDEN OF ALLAH. By Robert Hichens.

An unconventional English woman and an inscrutable stranger meet and
love in an oasis of the Sahara. Staged this season with magnificent cast
and gorgeous properties.

THE PRINCE OF INDIA. By Lew. Wallace.

A glowing romance of the Byzantine Empire, presenting with extraordinary
power the siege of Constantinople, and lighting its tragedy with the
warm underglow of an Oriental romance. As a play it is a great dramatic
spectacle.

TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY. By Grace Miller White. Illust. by Howard
Chandler Christy.

A girl from the dregs of society, loves a young Cornell University
student, and it works startling changes in her life and the lives of
those about her. The dramatic version is one of the sensations of the
season.

YOUNG WALLINGFORD. By George Randolph Chester. Illust. by F. R. Gruger
and Henry Raleigh.