A NOVEL

BY

LUCAS MALET

Author of Col. Enderby's Wife,' 'A Counsel of Perfection,' etc.

'Did we think victory great?

So it is. But now it seems to me, when it cannot be

helped, that defeat is great,

'And that death and dismay are great.'

HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINEY LD.,

PRINTERS

LONDON AND AYLESBURY,