What a Man Wills

Val Lessing's thirtieth birthday found him strong, handsome, prosperous, and--discontented. This is unfortunately a common combination, but Val acknowledged to himself that if o...

The girl who had wished for adventure journeyed back to her native village two days after the New Year's party, and spent the following eighteen months in tramping monotonously...

Behind his tired eyes and general affectation of indifference Rupert Dempster hid an overwhelming ambition. He longed for love--not for the ordinary springtide passion experienc...

Fifteen years had come and gone. The men and women who had sat round the fire on that memorable New Year's Eve in Mrs Ingram's hospitable country manor, had left youth behind, a...

The New Year festivities were over; in the hall of the old country Manor the guests had danced and sung, had stood hand in hand in a widening circle, listening to the clanging o...

Success was the passion of John Malham's life, mediocrity was his bane. The ordinary commonplace life which brings happiness and content to millions of his fellow men filled him...

Two men proposed to Lilith Wastneys at the same ball and in the same palm-shaded retreat. She was not surprised, because she had willed that they should speak, and people had a...

Claudia Berrington prided herself that if she had many faults, she had at least one supreme virtue--she was honest! She condescended to no subterfuges, no half-truths, no beatin...

Norah Boyce was one of numerous young women who have seen better days. During the seven years which had elapsed since she had bidden farewell to a Parisian boarding-school, she...

Meriel, on her part, had made few demands--riches and power had for her no allure; her highest ambition was to attain that quiet domestic happiness enjoyed by thousands of her s...

It seemed hard to Francis Manning that he, who had asked of fate nothing more exorbitant than an easy, comfortable existence, should have been called on to endure one of the mos...