November 1, 1921

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THE YELLOW STREAK

OH!” CRIED the girl, “you frightened me! You frightened me! What do you want here......in this horrible room?” She was trembling. One slim hand plucked nervously at her dress. Her breath came and went Quickly. “I saw the curtain move. I thought it was the wind at first. By VALENTINE WILLIAMS64 min

MOSTLY SALLY

SALLY stared at Ginger Kemp’s vermilion profile in frank amazement. Ginger, she had realized by this time, was in many ways a surprising young man, but she bad not expected him to be so surprising as this. “Marry you!” “You know what I mean.” “Well, yes, I suppose I do. By Pelham Grenville Wodehouse25 min

THE PEBBLE

MAYBE this happened. something like Two angels leaned on the wall of heaven, looking down on the Clearwater country. They were strong angels. One seemed especially capable and quick on the wing. He had need to be. He looked after Bernard and Francis Carr. By M. L. C. PICKTHALL17 min

MARCO

HE was a murderer! Twelve good men and true, his peers in the eyes of the law, had so decided, and the judge had solemnly condemned him to death. The young lawyer appointed to defend him had fought hard to save his grotesque little client, but the evidence against him had been too strong. By A. Montague Sanderson17 min

Heming, Dramatist of the Forest

IT WAS in childhood that the primitive spirit first came whispering to me. It was then I had my first day-dreams of the Northland - of its forests, its rivers and lakes, its hunters and trappers and traders, its fur-runners and mounted police, its voyageurs and. By CHARLES CHRISTOPHER JENKINS12 min

REVIEW of REVIEWS

Getting Seven Children Off to a Good Start

THIS is a true story. There may he littffc unusual in it, but it stands a living contradiction to the claim occasionally heard across bridge-tables and elsewhere, that “people simply can't raise a family now on a working man’s wages—not and give them a chance. By ETHEL M. CHAPMAN10 min

October 151921