"Very true," said I. "When was the first?"

"When I married your sister."

I nodded dreamily.

"I think," I said, "I think I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth."

Berry shook his head.

"Not a spoon," he said. "A soup-ladle."

THE END

NEW FICTION

THE BOX FROM j.a.pAN

By

HARRY STEPHEN KEELER

Another baffling story by the great detective-story writer who is already becoming world-famous for his marvellously intricate and ingenious plots. This story is a jewel of many facets in brilliant setting. Here Mr. Keeler's genius for the mystery-plot comes into an amazing perfection.

_Popular successes by this Author_:

The Amazing Web Thieves' Nights The Fourth King The Green Jade Hand Sing Sing Nights The Tiger Snake The Blue Spectacles Find the Clock The Black Satchel

All who love strong character and thrilling incident will revel in this essentially clever story.

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NEW FICTION

CALEB'S CONQUEST

By JOSEPH HOCKING

Caleb, the sixteen-year-old son of a small farmer, ran away on his father's death and engaged himself as a farm labourer. What he discovers in the next few years makes a typical Hocking Cornish adventure romance.

_Other popular Stories by this Author_:

Mistress Nancy Molesworth The Birthright Ishmael Pengelly G.o.d and Mammon The Weapons of Mystery Heartsease The Tenant of Cromlech Cottage Nancy Trevanion's Legacy The Secret of Trescobell A Prince of this World Greater Love Jabez Easterbrook An Enemy Hath Done This Roger Trewinion The Sign of the Triangle Out of the Depths

There are few better story-tellers than Mr. Joseph Hocking, especially when he is dealing with his beloved Cornwall. His stories are thrillingly interesting, and rivet the attention of the reader from beginning to end.

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THE SIGN OF THE GLOVE

(_Another_ "LEATHERMOUTH" _Novel_.)

By CARLTON DAWE

Colonel Gantian ("Leathermouth") is called upon by his friend, a Commissioner of Scotland Yard, to help in elucidating the mysterious events behind the death of the late Governor of Bombay. With much hesitation and reluctance, having just got married, he accepts the mission. But it sends him walking into many dangers, and it is only with much trouble that finally he is triumphant.

_Other recent successes by this Author_:

Leathermouth The Glare The Forbidden Shrine The Knightsbridge Affair Slings and Arrows Love, the Conqueror Pacific Blue The Desirable Woman The Winding Road The Missing Clue Fishers of Men Wanted

"For a certain crispness of dialogue, and deft arrangement of the events of a good plot, Mr. Carlton Dawe has very few rivals."--_The Yorkshire Post_.

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NEW FICTION

A MYSTERY CHAIN

By L. G. MOBERLY

This story deals with a foreign woman, who poses as a great philanthropist, but who, under cover of her social activities, is involved in very other matters. What these are must be left to Miss Moberly to tell, and she tells them in a story of great power, vividness and charm.

_Some of Miss Moberly's previous successes_:

The Voice Fingers of Fate Stepping Stones Hope, My Wife Vere Diana A Tangled Web A Way of Escape Threads of Life The Eternal Dustbin Renewal A Change and a Chance The Master Key

In the long list of successful novelists Miss Moberly takes a high place. Her novels are not merely thrillers, but a readable love story is invariably woven into the mystery.

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THE YELLOW WAGON

By CHARMAN EDWARDS

A beautiful woman, destined to be England's most famous actress, born amid the glamour yet hardship of that picturesque and now almost obsolete inst.i.tution of rural England, the travelling theatre. Against this coloured background and that of the West-end stage is the story of the men who craved her for her beauty alone. Here is no impossible heroine who survives her many ordeals unscathed--Sheila Fitzpatrick is but human after all--but the reader's sympathy will be with her to the end.

_By the same Author_:

Windfellow Derision High Street Rainbrother Sir Richard Penniless Mr. Edwards writes in a manner that holds one to his story.

Characterisation comes easy to him. He has a facility for sustained suspense and he constructs with admirable economy.