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"No, though it was not her fault The Earl of Rochester and his

page--you ree, and

the earl picked her up Then I got a boat, set out after her, claiht her ashore, and deposited

her safe and sound in her own house What do you think of that?"

"Or him by the shoulder, with a very

excited face, "is this true?"

"True as preaching, Kingsley, every word of it! And the most

extraordinary part of the business is, that her dip in cold water has

effectually cured her of the plague; not a trace of it re straight before hie in the world could have

done justice to his feelings at that precise period; for three tiht, in three different shapes, had he seen this sa her decked out in royal state in

the rain, Or her from her cold bath in

the river Thaether too feeble to

express his state of ht amid

all his mental chaos, and that was, that the Leoline he had fallen in

love with dead, aiting him, alive and well, in London

"Well," said Ormiston, "you don't speak! What do you think of all this?"