Unusual short stories where Miss Bailey shows her keen knowledge of character and environment, and how romance comes to different people.
THE TRUMPETER SWAN
Randy Paine comes back from France to the monotony of everyday affairs.
But the girl he loves shows him the beauty in the common place.
THE TIN SOLDIER
A man who wishes to serve his country, but is bound by a tie he cannot in honor break--that"s Derry. A girl who loves him, shares his humiliation and helps him to win--that"s Jean. Their love is the story.
MISTRESS ANNE
A girl in Maryland teaches school, and believes that work is worthy service. Two men come to the little community; one is weak, the other strong, and both need Anne.
CONTRARY MARY
An old-fashioned love story that is nevertheless modern.
GLORY OF YOUTH
A novel that deals with a question, old and yet ever new--how far should an engagement of marriage bind two persons who discover they no longer love.
GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers, NEW YORK
MARGARET PEDLER"S NOVELS
TO-MORROW"S TANGLE
The game of love is fraught with danger. To win in the finest sense, it must be played fairly.
RED ASHES
A gripping story of a doctor who failed in a crucial operation--and had only himself to blame. Could the woman he loved forgive him?
THE BARBARIAN LOVER
A love story based on the creed that the only important things between birth and death are the courage to face life and the love to sweeten it.
THE MOON OUT OF REACH
Nan Davenant"s problem is one that many a girl has faced--her own happiness or her father"s bond.
THE HOUSE OF DREAMS-COME-TRUE
How a man and a woman fulfilled a Gypsy"s strange prophecy.
THE HERMIT OF FAR END
How love made its way into a walled-in house and a walled-in heart.
THE LAMP OF FATE
The story of a woman who tried to take all and give nothing.
THE SPLENDID FOLLY
Do you believe that husbands and wives should have no secrets from each other?
THE VISION OF DESIRE
An absorbing romance written with all that sense of feminine tenderness that has given the novels of Margaret Pedler their universal appeal.
WAVES OF DESTINY
Each of these stories has the sharp impact of an emotional crisis--the compressed quality of one of Margaret Pedler"s widely popular novels.
GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers, NEW YORK.
THE NOVELS OF
GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL
A NEW NAME
ARIEL CUSTER
BEST MAN, THE