SOME MUTUAL COMPLIMENTS AND A CONFESSION.
Selections from Jarrold & Sons' List.
BY CURTIS YORKE,
Author of "That Little Girl," "A Romance of Modern London," "The Wild Ruthvens," etc., etc.
Fourth Edition.
ANIMA VILIS.
A TALE OF THE GREAT SIBERIAN STEPPE.
By MARYA RODZIEWICZ.
Translated from the Polish by Count S. C. de Soissons.
With a Fine Photogravure Portrait of the Author.
Second Edition.
A fascinating and powerful romance of this interesting personality.
CAPTAIN SATAN
ADVENTURES OF CYRANO DE BERGERAC.
From the French of LOUIS GALLET.
With special Photogravure Portrait of CYRANO DE BERGERAC.
Second Edition.
BY MAJOR ARTHUR GRIFFITHS,
Author of "Forbidden by Law," etc., etc.
Fourth Edition.
THE "GREENBACK" SERIES OF POPULAR 3/ 6 NOVELS.
PROLOGUE.
CHAPTER I.
A QUEER ADVENTURE.
It was midnight—midnight on Waterloo Bridge. A plague was over the city—the concentrated vomit of a million and more chimneys wrapped all in an Egyptian darkness.
The miracle of Moses could not have produced a deeper gloom—an atmosphere more impenetrable. It clung to the skin, it even pressed against the eyeballs. It might in truth have been that very outer darkness which we are
