“You are the dearest woman in the world to me—now,” he replied, encircling her finger with a ring that had once adorned the hand of an empress. “It would not be true to say that you are my first love, but then, perhaps,” he added, thinking of Alexander, “neither am I yours.”
But Pauline repudiated this with warmth.
“I have never loved any one but you.”
And with this answer Wilfrid was content.
THE END.
THE
SHADOW OF THE CZAR
By JOHN R. CARLING
Illustrated. 12mo. $1.50. Fifth Edition
“An engrossing romance of the sturdy, wholesome sort, in which the action is never allowed to drag,” (St. Louis Globe-Democrat) best describes this popular novel. “The Shadow of the Czar” is a stirring story of the romantic attachment of a dashing English officer for Princess Barbara, of the old Polish Principality of Czernova, and the conspiracy of the Duke of Bora, aided by Russia, to dispossess the Princess of her throne.
It is not an historical novel—the author makes his own events after the manner of Anthony Hope, and the Boston Herald is of the opinion that it “excels in interest Anthony Hope’s best efforts.” “Rarely do we find a story in which more happens, or in which the incidents present themselves with more suddenness and with greater surprise,” says the New York Sun.