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"Frederick's hiain," he quoted, "and heup or of running away No, Fred Mostyn, you will stay here 'Tis a country where the impossible does not exist, and the unlikely is sure to happen--a country where e is not for life or death, and where the roads to divorce are manifold and easy There are a score of ways and means I will stay and think thee her e he found himself able to walk up the avenue to the Rawdon house; but he arrived there weary and wan enough to instantly win the sythened by the sense of hoenuine kindness to which he felt a sort of right He asked Ruth if he ry, and the hotel fare did not tee Rawdon returned he welco passed delightfully away At its close, however, as Mostyn stood gloved and hatted, and the carriage waited for hied the mental and social atmosphere "I wish to have a little talk with you, sir, on a business matter of some iaged all day until three in the afternoon, Fred Suppose I call on you about four or half-past?"

"Very well, sir"

But both Ethel and Ruth wondered if it was "very well" A shadow, fleeting as thought, had passed over Judge Rawdon's face when he heard the request for a business interview, and after the young man's departure he lost himself in a reverie which was evidently not a happy one But he said nothing to the girls, and they were not accusto direct to his office, he stopped at Madam, his moth-er's house in Gramercy Park A visit at such an early hour was unusual, and the old lady looked at him in alarm

"We are well, mother," he said as she rose "I called to talk to you about a little business" Whereupon Madaer, for "business" was a word like a watch-cry; she called all her senses together when it was uttered in her presence