A Bitter Heritage . "Mr. Bloundelle-Burton is one of the most successful of the purveyors of historical romance who have started up in the wake of Stanley Weyman and Conan Doyle. He has a keen eye for the picturesque, a happy instinct for a dramatic (or more generally a melodramatic) situation, and he is apt and careful in his historic paraphernalia. He usually succeeds, therefore, in producing an effective story."-- Charleston News and Courier . Fortune's my Foe . "The story moves briskly, and

CHAPTER I .-- "You will forgive? " II .-- The story of a crime. III .-- "The land of the golden sun. " IV .-- An encounter. V .-- "A half-breed--named Zara. " VI .-- "Knowledge is not always proof. " VII .-- Madame Carmaux takes a nap. VIII .-- A midnight visitor. IX .-- Beatrix. X .-- Mr. Spranger obtains information. XI .-- A visit of condolence. XII .-- The reminiscences of a French gentleman. XIII .-- A change of apartments. XIV .-- "This land is full of snakes. " XV .-- Recollections of Seb

A young man, good-looking, with well-cut features, and possessing a pair of clear blue-grey eyes, sat in a first-class smoking compartment of a train standing in Waterloo Station--a train that, because there was one of those weekly race-meetings going on farther down the line, which take place all through the year, gave no sign of ever setting forth upon its journey. Perhaps it was natural that it should not do so, since, as the dwellers on the southern banks of the Thames are well aware, the sp