There is a better reason than that.

I love her, gentlemen, with all my heart and soul, and she has told me that she loves me." He felt her weight upon him, and, looking down, he saw that she had fainted in his arms, with a look of joy upon her poor wan face which none there had ever seen in the face of man or woman.
And so love conquered.
The End.
-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MR.

CRAWFORD'S LAST NOVEL.
KATHARINE LAUDERDALE.
TWO VOLUMES.CLOTH.

$2.00.
The first of a series of novels dealing with New York life.
PRESS COMMENTS.
"Mr.Crawford at his best is a great novelist, and in _Katharine Lauderdale_ we have him at his best."-- _Boston Daily Advertiser._ "A most admirable novel, excellent in style, flashing with humor, and full of the ripest and wisest reflections upon men and women."-- _The Westminster Gazette._ "It is the first time, we think, in American fiction that any such breadth of view has shown itself in the study of our social framework."-- _Life._ "Admirable in its simple pathos, its enforced humor, and, above all, in its truths to human nature....

There is not a tedious page or paragraph in it."-- _Punch._ "It need scarcely be said that the story is skilfully and picturesquely written, portraying sharply individual characters in well-defined surroundings."-- _New York Commercial Advertiser._ "_Katharine Lauderdale_ is a tale of New York, and is up to the highest level of his work.