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  BY RICHARD MARSH.

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  FRIVOLITIES: For Those Who are Tired of Being Serious.

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  "Brimful of fun."--_Daily Telegraph_.

  "Mr. Marsh is a humorist who is genuinely funny."--_St. James'sGazette_.

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  "You do not merely smile as you read, but laugh outright, and youlaugh all the time. Deliciously funny, and could not be bettertold."--_The Scotsman_.

  TOM OSSINGTON'S GHOST.

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  "Opens with a singularly dramatic and exciting situation, and theinterest thus at once aroused is sustained steadily to theclose."--_The Sketch_.

  "Mr. Marsh has been inspired by an entirely original idea, and hasworked it out with great ingenuity. We like this weird but notrepulsive story better than anything he has ever done."--_The World_.

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  London: James Bowden.

  THE WOMAN WITH ONE HAND

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  MR. ELY'S ENGAGEMENT

  "THIS TIME I SUCCEEDED IN WARDING HIM OFF." (_Page_102.)]

  THE WOMAN WITH ONE HAND

  AND

  Mr. Ely's Engagement

  BY

  RICHARD MARSH

  _Author of "Frivolities," "Tom Ossington's Ghost," "In Full Cry_." _"The Beetle: a Mystery," etc_.

  _WITH FRONTISPIECE BY STANLEY L. WOOD_

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  The Woman with One Hand