Sophie Cole, London, The fact that the secrets in book are but a side-issue-very intriguing side-issue—does not in any way detract from its excellence. The. book is the love story of two sisters, possessing very different natures, and 4 father and having quite fon one side the rather giddily distinctive dispositions, "Wo have inclined younger of dhe two fers directed towards the safe of matrimony with his son anxious father. ally, the father happens to be tone' of these well, preserved" middle aged. gentlemen with a Triondly feeling, or failing, for the gentler sex.' As the dey of the "marriage approaches the flirtacious flapper and. the. giddy gent begin to feel that, somehow other their plans have. gone astray. Tt is) not surprising, then, that in the flat destined to {bo the home of the young couple the flapper suddenly' realizes that the has made a very serious mistake and that her "heart. really belongs to the father and not to the son, Advised by her more sedate sisten, she bice to Waterloo and. Brightoa, there to. mourn over her error and to await the inevitable arrival of her real Sate.
Meanwhile the disappointed bridegroom bears up nobly under his loss and—but readers should the last left to. almoner, the bepniet It seems to assess better literary.
ters of a very pleasing tale. balance and more of economy'; The introduction of a means of effect: Bub who has been carefully hidden is only for years, of a rough but} intrigues because of the irresisthearted and well meaning ible Rose McLeau, the little ladys uncle and aunt, and of.a number lady's-maid with "a passion for of boarding house residents very trinkets of diamond "and pearl, true to type; goes to round out and who almost ravishes the Jan excellently written: story on stern heart of Dawson himself which the writer is, to be con-before he finally tracks her down to the cache,
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