"Good-morning, Mr. Merriwell," she said. "Pres and I have made things rather warm for you, you must confess. I reckon we made a mistake last night. We'd both been looking on the wine when it was red, or we'd not attempted to stampede the audience."

"Why, it is the woman who claimed to be Havener's wife!" cried Frank.

"Here is the man," said the detective.

Frank turned to another cell.

He was face to face with Philip Scudder, his old-time enemy, who had reached the end of his rope at last!

But, in the hour of victory, Frank gave little heed to those who had made his path to this present success a hard and stormy one.

He was successful!

As a playwright and as an actor he had won the palm of victory, the future seemed to promise all the rewards his energy and enterprise deserved.

He had started out from college with the determination to win wealth and fame. He had left the scenes of his early triumphs and first misfortunes, with the firm purpose to return honored and enriched by his own labors.

Now he was on the eve of accomplishing that purpose.

And as he looked into the future, the lines of will power and determination that had always marked his handsome countenance grew firmer, as he murmured:

"I will myself be 'True Blue!' Come what may, let my paths for the next few months be as untoward as they ever have been, difficulties shall but act as a spur to me in my purpose. For I shall be, soon, I hope, once more a son of 'Old Eli.'"

THE END.

No. 41 of The Merriwell Series, ent.i.tled "Frank Merriwell's Prosperity,"

by Burt L. Standish, shows our hero as a successful playwright, and on a fair way to fame and fortune.

BUFFALO BILL

King of the Plains

William Cody, Colonel U.S.A., is little known under his real name, but when you call him by the t.i.tle conferred upon him by the hard-headed, harder-fisted Western pioneers, why, the whole world knows him--BUFFALO BILL!

Stories of his adventures would be most difficult to write for one who had not shared his camp-fire days; but Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, who wrote the stories in Buffalo Bill's Border Stories, was his boon companion, sharing all of his marvelous adventures--even to being wounded with him.

Therefore, while apparently they are fiction, actually, these stories are based upon fact and written by a clever pen.

If you like good Western adventure, look up the Buffalo Bill Border Stories at your news dealer's. There are many different ones--you are bound to find them interesting and surprisingly good at the price.

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NICK CARTER CAPTURED

The Heart of the World

Twenty years ago, when Nick Carter first appeared upon the literary stage as a fiction character, he was looked upon as a curiosity--more to be smiled at than taken seriously.

Now, however, he is the favorite of countless millions of readers in every walk of life. Stories of his adventures have been translated into nearly every foreign tongue; he appears on the screen in a series of most fascinating pictures produced by Broadwell Productions, Inc.

In short, Nick Carter's great triumph lies in the fact that he has captured the heart of the world.

Have you ever met him? If not, buy any of the following three books and prepare to be cheered up:

New Magnet Library.

1025 "Wildfire"

1021 "The Secret of the Marble Mantel"

1017 "A Spinner of Death"

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