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fiveout, with "Good-night"

to the earl The rain was rushing along, now, in torrents, and he ran

upstairs and darted into an archway of the bridge, to seek the shelter

Some one else had co;

for he sao dark figures standing within it as he entered

"A sudden storo the fires--hiss and splutter I kneould be"

"Then Saul and Mr Or the prophets?"

Ormiston had heard that voice before; it was associated in his mind with

a slouched hat and shadowy cloak; and by the fast-fading flicker of the

firelight, he saw that both were here The speaker wan Count L'Estrange;

the figure beside hie of norance "May I

ask who you are?"

"Certainly A gentlerace of God"

"And your nae, at your service"

Or somehow, that the

count was a ood deed, tonight, for a friend of

ation by telling ht her back?"