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'Sit down,' said Mr Raunha to foruess at such an object, and all to no purpose--entirely to no purpose Have you said anything to Owen Graye?' 'Nothing--nor to anybody I could not trust to the effect a letter ht have upon yourself, either; the intricacy of the case bringsthe two had sat down together

The conversation, hitherto distinct to every corner of the room, was carried on now in tones so low as to be scarcely audible to the interlocutors, and in phrases which hesitated to complete themselves Three-quarters of an hour passed Then Edward arose, ca his cloak around hi thence homeward, he went first to the Carriford Road Station with a telegra despatched which he proceeded to his father's house for the first tie

3 FROM NINE TO TEN O'CLOCK PM

The next presentation is the interior of the Old House on the evening of the preceding section The steas sitting by his parlour fire, and had been reading the letter arrived from the rectory Opposite to hihbourhood as Mrs Manston

'Things are looking desperate with us,' he said glooitiism As he uttered the words he handed the letter to her

'I almost expected soreater indifference 'I knew suspicion lurked in the eyes of that young man who stared at me so in the church path: I could have sworn it' Manston did not answer for soard; latterly his head had not been carried so uprightly as of old 'If they prove you to be--who you areYes, if they do,' he murmured

'They must not find that out,' she said, in a positive voice, and looking at hi they do, the trick does not seem to me to be so serious as to justify that wretched, miserable, horrible look of yours It makes my flesh creep; it is perfectly deathlike' He did not reply, and she continued, 'If they say and prove that Eunice is indeed living--and dear, you know she is--she is sure to come back' This reain, as he had done a hundred tiorized the events connected with the fire at the Three Tranters He dwelt on every incident of that night's history, and endeavoured, with an anxiety which was extraordinary in the apparent circumstances, to prove that his wife s, have perished in the fla, and set herself to soothe hi as ever 'Co she escaped--where is she?' coaxed the lady