Tam Harben Way." Ararold THindite, London! Ward Lock and Go The jacket of this book tells os that My. Harold Bindloss has nearly forty books to his credit so he is an author of some standing. The bock looks like the ordinary run of fiction of its class but on reading it one finds that it is distinctly above the average. The story tells that a rancher, Lawrence Bethune, who has his home on the Canadian Pacific slope, was astonished, one day, to find's' girl asleep under 9 cedar tree She was Ruby Desmond who had been touring the country with a vaudeville company and had, by some misadventure, been left-behind and had taken service in Tecumseh House, a rude kind of hotel patronized by ranchers and long shore men. Ruby persuades Lawrence to take her on his sloop fon the chance that she will catch up with her company across the strait. If she had done so there would have been no story but the winds and waves combined to spoil the plan and the girl was compelled to- spend the night on the sloop. Lawrence took her to his home and handed her over to the, wife of the) government representative in his met. Ruby suspects that the wife of a man of his standing would scarcely take kindly to housing a derelict vaudeville actress but the venture turns out bettor than either of them anticipated. Having got the girl disposed of Lawrence wat by no means happy. He had, per force, had to share his sloop' with her and as "when the nunnery door faces the monastery though there is nothing in it there may be something." So, at least people argue Jand Lawrenge decides that the only way out for a gentleman to marry She was attractive, in a comradely way, and he felt that he might do worse, but his elreumstances were such that he was not yet in a posi-to nto marry comfortably. Nevertheless, he put on his most presentable suit of clothes and called on the "pukka Sahib" and explained his errand, Ho was commended for his chivalry and made as good a Job of the proposal as was possible under the circumstances. To_his surprise, and somewhat to his relief, he was promptly refused. Mrs. London had offered. the friendless iti a post as Mother's help though there were no children in her menage and Lawrence was now to learn that Ruby Desmond was a stage name and, as the sloop had neatly drowned her, she declared Ruby was dend and henceforth she was Alice Thorne, the name she had in her English home. The story pro-cods to a happy ending but it pas. fes through many exciting scenes first and the life of the hardy men who carve a living out of the primoval forest is well. described, One wanders with the characters In the story over the great moan-tains through the dense forests of Canada. There is a near tragedy, villain and a designing woman in the plot: all the paraphernalia a good story and the whole tale excellently told. Many novelists depend on sex interest and risky situations to maintain the interest of thei readers but, while ove plays its part, sex is not more prominent in this book than it is in the ordin-wes of decent people. The heroine is a real woman and a very lovable person and when, at Jong last, Lawrence Bethune carries her off to his ranch—and, indeed, she helped him a great deal or he would never have won through—the reader is. thoroughly satisfied that this is the way the story should end, Anyone wanting good clean book with plenty of vivid description and exciting interest will find this one measure fully up to the standard their desires, Mr, John the D. Rockefeller, American millionaire, who has lately' celebrated his ninetieth birthday, 's said to be preparing an autobiography. case, an infusion of irony would have helped, But let it be sot down once more that at least, despite all appearances, this is not a re-hash of previous books, that have read the originals ed from most of the for cheap effective-
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