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This ended her first day's work in London
4 FROM AUGUST THE TWENTY-SIXTH TO SEPTEMBER THE FIRST The two Cythereas continued at the West her companion that business would detain them in London another week The days passed as slowly and quietly as days can pass in a city at that time of the year, the shuttered s about the squares and terraces confronting their eyes like the white and sightless orbs of blindthe whole number of replies to the advertisement Cytherea was present at the interview, by Miss Aldclyffe's request--either fron
Ten additional letters were the result of the second week's insertion,fifty-five in all Miss Aldclyffe looked thened-AENEAS MANSTON, 133, TURNGATE STREET, LIVERPOOL
'Now, then, Mr Nyttleton, will you make a selection, and I will add one or two,' Miss Aldclyffe said
Mr Nyttleton scanned the whole heap of letters, testi thelance, was thrown ast the summarily rejected ones
Miss Aldclyffe read, or pretended to read after the lawyer When he had finished, five lay in the group he had selected 'Would you like to add to the nu to the lady
'No,' she said carelessly 'Well, two or three additional ones rather took er collection
She drew out three One was Manston's
'These eight, then, shall be coht letters and placing them by themselves
They stood up 'If I myself, Miss Aldclyffe, were only concerned personally,' he said, in an off-hand way, and holding up a letter singly, 'I should choose this ly He writes honestly, is not afraid to name what he does not consider hi to find in answers to advertisements; he is well recommended, and possesses soh, he is not really a steward He was bred a far affairs, served on an estate for some time, then ith an architect, and is noell qualified as architect, estate agent, and surveyor That man is sure to have a fine head for a manor like yours' He tapped the letter as he spoke 'Yes, I should choose hi personally' 'And I think,' she said artificially, 'I should choose this one as a iven way to when practical questions have to be considered' Cytherea, after looking out of the , and then at the newspapers, had becos between the clever Miss Aldclyffe and the keen old lawyer, which rely at the two letters--one in Miss Aldclyffe's hand, the other in Mr Nyttleton's