The Opposite House: A Novel — page 289: what you’re looking at

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THESSTORY OF A HOPELESS 2OV rE tons of Ilreasure By WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP. Author of ‘‘DETMOLB.”’ When two women love one man there is usually trouble brewing. Nor is the story which Mr. Bishop has to tell an exception. His hero is a manly New Yorker, who is fired with a zeal to ‘‘make good’’ a defalca- tion accredited to his dead father . in quest of gold he visits Mexico and there meets a dreamy-eyed maid who straightway gives him first place in her heart. But an American girl has already won his love. Itisa pathetic situation and if one true woman’s heart breaks before the man’s inission is ended who is to blame? There are many touching incidents in the book, but none more full of pathos than when the woman who loves bares her soul to the woman who is loved . .. .« 12mo., Cloth. Price, $1.00. STREET AND SMITH, New York and London Comicbool< C@