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Stanley Paul's New Six Shilling Novels continued.
The Ban. LESTER LURGAN
Author of " The Mill-owner," " Bohemian Blood," etc., etc.
This is a story of mystery involving the Ban of Blood. Brenda is a pretty,
charming, and very feminine girl of good English family who marries one who
adores her, but who has, unknown to himself, Red-Indian blood in his veins. This
is revealed to him by an old nurse on her death-bed, and is demonstrated on his
return to his wife by the birth of a son who bears unmistakable signs of the terrible
inheritance. An old mystery is explained, and new tragedies follow. The child is
placed under the care of the grandmother's tribe but soon succumbs, nor does the
father long survive the awful experience. After his death Brenda marries her childhood's
playmate and first love.
Bright Shame. KEIGHLEY SNOWDEN
Author of " The Free "
Marriage," The Plunder
"
Pit," Hate of
Evil," etc.
Stephen Gaunt, an English sculptor famous in Italy, is the father of a son born out
of wedlock, whom he has never heard of. In his youth, a light attachment broken in
a causeless fit of jealousy drove him abroad, but when the story opens he is a
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They are an elder half-brother, who has always hated Stephen, and his sensitive,
tender and simple wife, who loves the boy with all her heart, fears to lose him, and
who is yet tormented by her secret. A romantic friendship springs up between son
and father ; and the chain of accidents and proofs by which he learns the truth, his
struggle for control of the boy, who has genius, and the effect of these events on the
boy and his foster mother make a fascinating plot.
A Star of the East :
A Story of Delhi. CHARLES
E. PEARCE. Author of "The Amazing Duchess," "The Beloved
Princess," " Love "
Besieged," Red Revenge," etc.
"East is East and West is Wst, and never the twain shall meet." This
is the theme of Mr. Pearce's new novel of life in India. The scene is laid in
Delhi, the city of all others where for the past hundred years the traditions of
ancient dynasties and the barbaric splendours of the past havs been slowly retreating
before the ever-advancing influence of the West. The conflict of passions between
Nara, the dancing girl, in whose veins runs the blood of Shah Jehan, the most
famous of the Kings of Delhi, and Clare Stanhope, born and bred in English
conventionality, never so pronounced as in the Fifties, is typical of the differences
between the East and the West. The rivalry of love threads its way through a
series of exciting incidents, culminating in the massacre and the memorable siege of
Delhi. This book completes the trilogy of Mr. Pearce's novels of the Indian
Mutiny, of which "Love Besieged " and " Red Revenge " were the first and second.
The Destiny of Claude.
Author of "Henri of Navarre,"
"
Honour's Fetters," etc.
"The Red
MAY WYNNE
Fleur de Lys,"
Claude de Marbeill* to escape a convent life joins her friend Margot de Ladrennes
in Touraine. Jacques Comte de Ladrennes, a hunchback, falls in love with her, and
when the two girls go to Paris to enter the suite of the fifteen year old Mary Queen of
Scots, he follows and takes service with the Duke of Guise. Claude, however, falls in
love with Archie Cameron, an officer of the Scottish Guard, who by accident discovers
how Queen Mary has been tricked by her Uncles of Guise into signing papers
bequeathing Scotland to France in the event of her dying childless. Cameron is
imprisoned, but escapes in time to warn the Scots Commissioners on their way home
of this act of treachery. Cameron is followed by a spy of the Guises, and the four
Commissioners die by poison. Cameron recovers, and returns to Paris to find
that Claude has oeen sent to some unknown Convent. The rest of the tale relates
Cameron's search for his sweetheart, the self-sacrifice of the Comte de Ladrennes,
and the repentance and atonement of Margot de Ladrennes, who through jealousy
betrays her friend.
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