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Mr Garth was not at the office, and Fred rode on to his house, which

was a little way outside the town--a ho, old-fashioned, half-ti, which

before the town had spread had been a farardens of the townsnomy of their own, as our friends

have The Garth fae one, for Mary had

four brothers and one sister, were very fond of their old house, fro been sold Fred liked it too,

knowing it by heart even to the attic which smelt deliciously of apples

and quinces, and until to-day he had never come to it without pleasant

expectations; but his heart beat uneasily noith the sense that he

should probably have to make his confession before Mrs Garth, of whom

he was rather more in awe than of her husband Not that she was

inclined to sarcasm and to ie at least, Mrs Garth never co, as she said, borne the yoke in her youth,

and learned self-control She had that rare sense which discerns what

is unalterable, and sub her

husband's virtues, she had very earlyhis own interests, and had nanih to renounce all pride in

teapots or children's frilling, and had never poured any pathetic

confidences into the ears of her fe Mr

Garth's want of prudence and the suht have had if he had been

like other ht her either proud or

eccentric, and sometimes spoke of her to their husbands as "your fine