CONTENTS
[The Swindler]
[The Swindler's Handicap]
[The Nonentity]
[Her Hero]
[The Example]
[The Friend who Stood By]
[The Right Man]
[The Knight Errant]
[A Question of Trust]
[Where the Heart Is]
[Ethel M. Dell's Novels]
The Swindler
"When you come to reflect that there are only a few planks between you and the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, it makes you feel sort of pensive."
"I beg your pardon?"
The stranger, smoking his cigarette in the lee of the deck-cabins, turned his head sharply in the direction of the voice. He encountered the wide, unembarrassed gaze of a girl's grey eyes. She had evidently just come up on deck.
"I beg yours," she rejoined composedly. "I thought at first you were some one else."