"Hyman, you'll do something for me?" he said gently.
"I won't give you a cent," Groll said, "but I may have need of you some day." He shut the door and called to the coachman, "Jefferson Market Court!"
When the carriage turned, Bofinger was holding his head in his hands.
"Ugh!" Groll said to himself, gazing after him with a somber glance, "and I might have been like that!"
He remained still, shuddering at the thought which Bofinger's abjection had called up; as in another's death what we weep for is often the imminence of our own.
Two or three persons found the situation unusual enough to turn and glance back.
With Illustrations in color by Alice Barber Stephens. Crown, 8vo. $1.50
The subtlety and charm of Mr. Gilson's stories reach their highest point in this book. Larry, the newspaper man, humorous, kindly, homely, lives over again the romance of his younger days in the little daughter of the woman he lost. Upon this slightly suggested theme Mr. Gilson builds one of his most charming stories, full of the humor and the tenderness which mark all of his work. The illustrations by Mrs. Stephens deserve an especial word, for the extraordinary sympathy with which they depict the charm of Mr. Gilson's characters.
_Author of "Cape Cod Folks," "Vesty of the Basins," "Deacon Lysander."_
In this volume Mrs. Greene returns to the quaint, strong characters of the sea coast, but this time it is in Nova Scotia that she has laid her story. The tale is of a dissolute city lad set down penniless in the sombre life of Power Lot--"Power Lot God Help Us" it is called in that section--a little fishing village set on the rough, wild coast, where the characters have the breadth of the magnificent view which surrounds them, and a quaint idea of life, which is altogether fascinating. The story of the development of this lad in the hard work and struggle for his very living, and of the pathetic and humorous incidents which befell him, is done in Mrs. Greene's best style, and is perhaps the strongest and most entertaining book she has written.
Truly a tale of most exceptional humour and charm--a most captivating and refreshing story.
PUNCH.--"The Baron has great pleasure in recommending Hazel to all and sundry. There is in this story an originality of idea and a freshness of treatment that will rivet the attention of the most jaded novel-reader."