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Manston went to his desk and thought of Cytherea's beauty with the bitterest, wildest regret After the lapse of a few minutes he calmed himself by a stoical effort, and wrote the subjoined letter to his wife:-'KNAPWATER, November 21, 1864

'DEAR EUNICE,--I hope you reached London safely after your flighty visit to ht over our conversation that night, and your wish that your coer delayed After all, it was perfectly natural that you should have spoken unkindly as you did, ignorant as you were of the circuements to fetch you home at once It is hardly worth while for you to atteathered about you (beyond s at a broker's; your bringing them would only make a talk in this parish, and lead people to believe we had long been keeping house separately

'Will next Monday suit you for co to do that can occupy you for more than a day or two, as far as I can see, and the remainder of this ill afford aht before, and ill coether by the mid-day train--Your very affectionate husband, 'AENEAS MANSTON

'Now, of course, I shall no longer write to you as Mrs Rondley' The address on the envelope was-MRS MANSTON, 41 CHARLES SQUARE, HOXTON, LONDON, N

He took the letter to the house, and it being too late for the country post, sent one of the stableo to Buder any necessity to keep his condition a secret

7 FROM THE TWENTY-SECOND TO THE TWENTY-SEVENTH OF NOVEMBER But the next etful of anotherMonday to his wife for the journey

The fact was this A letter had just co week open for an ient, at that gentleman's residence thirteen ested to his wife, had, in the interi could not now be put off

So he wrote again to his wife, stating that business, which could not be postponed, called him away fro all the way to fetch her on Sunday night as he had intended, but that he would meet her at the Carriford Road Station with a conveyance when she arrived there in the evening