Part 11

He might as well have asked alms of a statue. He went again, but the result was the same. And then a third time he went to her, and on his knees, with clasped and trembling hands, in a voice broken and quavering, he besought her to save his grandson from the gallows. "Come to court," he pleaded; "if you will only come to court!"

"I will come," the girl at last made answer, "I will come to see him sentenced."

Such is the truth about Tristrem Varick. In metropolitan drawing-rooms it was noticed that since Miss Raritan's return from Europe the quality of her voice had deteriorated. Mrs. Manhattan said that for her part she did not approve of the French method.

THE END.

EDGAR SALTUS' WRITINGS

"_Mr. Saltus is the prose laureate of pessimism._"--THE ARGUS.

_MR. INCOUL'S MISADVENTURE_

_THE ANATOMY OF NEGATION_

_THE PHILOSOPHY OF DISENCHANTMENT_

_BALZAC_

IN PREPARATION

_EDEN_

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