The strong, silent one proposes ike any gentleman, but the reader is conscious of some deadly insult behind the scene. Then Sam appears on his old grey nag and she urges him to "go after him—thrash him—kilt him if you like—and I'l marry you to-morrow." Sam "does according," and Ermine marries him, the marriage being the prelude to a series of emotional adventures which eave the "Mysteries of Udolpho" beat and gasping.
Miss Dell has written a first-rate yarn, She can always be relied on for a plot, and she has sustained her story with very modern dialogue and startling situations. Moreover, she keeps one guessing until almost the last page as to how and why such things might, could, or must have been and, after all, is not story-telling. the first duty of the purveyor of fiction?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.