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At last Manstonkind of whistle, adjusted his hat, and walked on again, cross-questioning hie he had carefully concealed had found its way to another person's intelligence 'How can th, audibly 'Well, it is a blessing I have been circumspect and honourable, in relation to that--yes, I will say it, for once, even if the words chokeof mine, Cytherea, never to be reat sadness of his utterance proved that no mean force had been exercised upon himself to sustain the circumspection he had just claimed

He wheeled to the left, pursued the ditch beside the railway fence, and presently e into a road which crossed the railway by a bridge

As he neared horees into a gri upon his lips, and he quoted aloud a line from the book of Jeremiah-'A woman shall compass a ht the next e in Knapwater House, froiven upon his door

'Owen, Owen, are you awake?' said Cytherea in a whisper through the keyhole 'You et up directly, or you'll miss the train' When he descended to his sister's little roo with a cup of cocoa and a grilled rasher on the table for hi on his overcoat and finding his hat, and they then went softly through the long deserted passages, the kitchen- before the wheeling shadon corridors intersecting the one they followed, their re lost in darkness The door was unbolted and they stepped out

Owen had preferred walking to the station to accepting the pony-carriage which Miss Aldclyffe had placed at his disposal, having atrouble to people richer than himself, and especially to their men-servants, who looked down upon him as a hybrid monster in social position Cytherea proposed to walk a little ith hi as I can,' she said tenderly

Brother and sister then eed by the heavy door into the drive