The step passed on round to the door that opened into the garden, and she heard it no more. But she did not, even though she had found her book, care to read, but, gently drawing up the blind, she sat at the open window. The moon had swung to its zenith, and a huge flood of white light was poured on the shrubbery where she had thrown the bottle, and on the lawn and flower-beds; and she sat there long, drinking in the serenity of the cloudless night.
Then the sound of another step, quick but stealthy, came to her ears, and next moment she saw Thurso crossing the path to the shrubbery. He struck a match, and seemed by its light to be searching eagerly for something. Eventually he found it, and, emerging again, held it up in the moonlight. There was a drop or two still remaining in the bottle, and, turning it upside down, he let them trickle into his mouth.
=The Face of Clay.= By HORACE ANNESLEY VACHELL. 1 v.-3895.
A story of Brittany, in which the ways of artists are made a principal theme. Like the author's great book, "Brothers," this work has already become a prime favourite.
=Martha Rose, Teacher.= By M. BETHAM-EDWARDS. 1 vol.-3896.
This is a new story of Suffolk country life by an author who has made the peasant habits and dialect of the county her especial study.
=Salted Almonds.= By F. ANSTEY. 1 vol.-3897.
A collection of short stories and sketches of English life by one of the foremost humourists of the day.
=Whispers about Women.= By LEONARD MERRICK. 1 vol.-3898.
The unexpected is always welcome in fiction, and these new stories and sketches of Mr. Merrick's are nearly all characterised by originality of _dénouement_.
=The Compromise.= By DOROTHEA GERARD. 2 v.-3899/900.
A love-story containing many dramatic situations, and trenchantly describing the life of a colony of Irish slate-quarrymen.
=The Mayor of Troy.= By "Q" (A. T. QUILLER-COUCH). 1 vol.-3901.
Mr. Quiller-Couch is always at his best when describing his native county of Cornwall. The present volume it a tragi-comedy, in which the "Mayor" alternately evokes our smiles and pity.
=In Subjection.= By ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER. 2 v.-3902/3.
The theme of this, Miss Fowler's latest and newest novel, is one of perennial interest to both sexes--namely, the apostle's preaching "Ye wives, be ye in subjection to your husbands."
