"WILL HE COME?"
From the Painting by Marcus Stone, R.A.
By Permission of the Berlin Photographic Co., London, W.
My travelling companion
A Complete Story
By Catherine Childar.
Illustrated by Fred. Pegram.
It was a miserable day in November—the sort of day when, according to the French, splenetic Englishmen flock in such crowds to the Thames, in order to drown themselves, that there is not standing room on the bridges. I was sitting over the fire in our dingy dining-room; for personally I find that element more cheering than water under depressing circumstances.