"Last call," he said. "Time to turn in." He rolled over and began to pull off the rags in which his child had spurned him.
"The next time I'm inspected," he muttered, "I shall be a clean man." So, naked, he slipped into the black water under the bank. The river bore him up and gave him one more chance, but he refused it: with two strokes he was in the midst of the death current, and it seized him and took him down.
BOOKS OF FICTION.
Books by Mary Hallock Foote.
THE CHOSEN VALLEY. A Novel.
THE LED-HORSE CLAIM. Illustrated.
JOHN BODEWIN'S TESTIMONY.
THE LAST ASSEMBLY BALL, and THE FATE OF A VOICE.
IN EXILE, AND OTHER STORIES.
CŒUR D'ALÉNE. A Novel.
THE CUP OF TREMBLING, AND OTHER STORIES.
Clara Louise Burnham.
Young Maids and Old.
Next Door.
Dearly Bought.
No Gentlemen.
A Sane Lunatic.
The Mistress of Beech Knoll.
Miss Bagg's Secretary.
Dr. Latimer.
Sweet Clover: A Romance of the White City.
The Wise Woman.
Edwin Lassetter Bynner.
Zachary Phips.
Agnes Surriage.
The Begum's Daughter.