"Mademoiselle," said the strange, gallant man she took for a knight, whom she had met at the opening of the sea-cave. "Your wound might become serious if you do not show it to a doctor!" "Oh, it won't," Chris said lightly. "I shall be all right. Nothing ever happens to me." "Nothing?" he questioned, with an answering smile. She was hobbling over the stones with his assistance. "Nothing interesting, I assure you," she said. "Except when mademoiselle goes to the cavern of the fairies, to look for the magic knight?" he suggested.

Author Biography

Ethel M. Dell (1881 - 1939) was a British writer of over 30 popular romance novels and several short stories from 1911 to 1939. Ethel Dell worked on a novel for several years, but it was rejected by eight publishers. Finally the publisher T. Fisher Unwin bought the book for their First Novel Library, a series which introduced a writer's first book. This book, entitled The Way of an Eagle, was published in 1911 and by 1915 it had gone through thirty printings. Her debut novel is very characteristic of Ethel M. Dell's novels. There is a very feminine woman, an alpha male, a setting in India, passion galore liberally mixed with some surprisingly shocking violence and religious sentiments sprinkled throughout. While readers adored Ethel M. Dell's novels, critics hated them with a passion; but she did not care what the critics thought. She considered herself a good storyteller - nothing more and nothing less. She continued to write novels for a number of years. She made quite a lot of money, from 20,000 to 30,000 a year, but remained quiet and almost pathologically shy.