Amy, Ruth, and Priscilla stood side by side. The tears were running down Ruth's cheeks, and Priscilla's eyes were wet. Amy had forced herself to smile during Peggy's protracted leave-taking and the smile persisted, though it had become a grimace.

"Is this place called Friendly Terrace?" Amy demanded tragically, "Or is it the—the Dismal Swamp."

"Or the desert of Sahara," suggested Priscilla, a quaver in her voice showing that the suggestion was not altogether a joke.

"Girls!" for a moment Ruth struggled with a sob, but she conquered it and went on resolutely, "I don't know who named Friendly Terrace, but I do know it was Peggy who made the name fit. And we've got to keep it up. We can't let it become like other little streets where nobody cares for his neighbor. We've got to show what Peggy meant to us by—by—"

"By keeping the home fires burning," interpolated Amy, and Ruth nodded as if the familiar phrase said all she had wished to say.

As the others crowded indoors, declaring after immemorial fashion that there had never been a prettier wedding nor a lovelier bride, Peggy's three friends stood side by side; Ruth's hand was fast in Amy's, and Amy's arm was about Priscilla's waist. And while none of them spoke, each of them in her heart was silently pledging herself to keep Friendly Terrace what Peggy had made it.

THE END

MARK GRAY'S HERITAGE

A Romance

By Eliot Harlow Robinson

Author of "Smiles: A Rose of the Cumberlands,"
"Smiling Pass," "The Maid of Mirabelle," etc.
Cloth, 12mo, illustrated, $1.90

"What is bred in the bone will never come out ofthe flesh."

Mr. Robinson's distinguished success came with theacclaim accredited to his novel, SMILES, "The Best-LovedBook of the Year," and its sequel, SMILINGPASS. With delicate humor and a sincere faith in thebeautiful side of human nature, Mr. Robinson hascreated for himself a host of enthusiastic admirers.In his new book he chooses a theme, suggested perhapsby the old proverb quoted above ("Pilpay's Fables").His setting is a Quaker village, his theme the conflictbetween grave Quaker ideals and the strength and hotblood of impulsive Mark Gray.

Here is a book that is worthy of the reception accordedSMILES by all readers who appreciate a storyof deep significance, simply yet powerfully built uponfundamental passions, wrought with a philosophy thatalways sees the best in troubled times.

The enthusiastic editor who passed on MARKGRAY'S HERITAGE calls it—hardly too emphatically—"Amighty good story with plenty of entertainmentfor those who like action (there is more of thatin it than in any other of Mr. Robinson's novels). Thereading public will unquestionably call it another 'couragebook'—which they called the SMILES books, youknow. The language is both strong and smooth. Thestory has a punch!"