Chapter IV

After that day clean April poured sunlight over the marshes. Flocks of plover settled on the emerging pasture; and the sea, whose presence was divined rather than seen over the edge of the fens, ceased to be a threat, and became a promise, for the peculiar void of the sky above it, where land stopped short, grew luminous with the transparency of shower-washed spaces. The very roads, the very railway line with its straight, shining metals, streamed away, avenues of promise and escape.

Like a great bowl opened to the gold-moted emptiness of heaven the country lay, recipient of the benediction.

_January-September, 1920._

_A Selection from the Catalogue of_

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

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Complete Catalogues sent on application

PRIVILEGE

BY

MICHAEL SADLEIR

“The story of the decline and fall of Whern is always
poignant and never dismal. The romance is of the stuff
of the story, seen by an author who knows the world we
live in.... The picture, for all of its rich colour and
noble gesture, is essentially true. And it is full of
that queer fascination exerted by greatness that is
passing or has passed.”—_Times Literary Supplement._

=Hamilton Fyfe in the _DAILY MAIL_ says:=

“About ‘Privilege’ I find it hard to write without
exaggeration. It is so truly imagined, this story of the
decline of an ancient family; so skilfully presented,
and written with so sure a hand, that we must put its
author among the most distinguished not only of our
younger but of all our novelists.... The entire book is
a piece of literature, satisfying from every point of
view.”

=_PUNCH_ says:=

“I can imagine few books that would give to some modern
Rip van Winkle a better understanding of the attitude of
aristocratic youth towards the life of to-day.... A
novel both individual and touched with a dignity too
rare in these days of slovenly fiction.”

The House in Queen Anne Square

By

W. D. Lyell

“An admirably written novel of intrigue.... The author
depicts all the various situations by which a plot most
dexterously contrived is unravelled.... This is
melodrama, to be sure, but it is very distinctly of the
police variety. Both in characterization and in style it
is far superior to the ordinary mystery story.”

_From The Providence Journal_

“The House in Queen Anne Square can be pronounced the
best mystery story recently found on a constantly
lengthening list.... It is about the cleverest mystery
that anybody could conceive.... It may now be suspected
that the absorbing story is written with unusual
skill.... It is not your ordinary detective tale turned
out as you wait.”

_From The Pittsburg Dispatch_

“An interesting and well-sustained mystery story, whose
solution baffles the reader until the very end.”

_From The New York Times_

“Mystery, the confusion of identities and crime of a
horrible subtle nature carry the reader through exciting
chapters. There are many dramatic moments.... At the
tale’s close comes a very astonishing climax.”

_The Buffalo Commercial_

The Man with the Brooding Eyes

By

John Goodwin
Author of “Without Mercy”

A romance full of excitement and surprises, woven around
the plots not only of the execrable “Callaghan Gang,”
who get into their clutches a stenographer who turns out
to be an heiress, but of the counter-plots of a devoted
lover and clever lawyer, and of a “tall, lean man with
brooding eyes,” who plays providence in a story in the
early part of which he figures as one of the principal
villains.

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

NEW YORK LONDON

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Transcriber’s note:

1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.

2. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as
printed.

3. P. 231, changed “That’s love, isn’t?” to “That’s love, isn’t it?”