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"There must be disappointment," he said; and he did not know the sound of his own voice

"What disappointment? Speak to me What disappointment?"

"Disappointment!" shrieked the mother "How disappoint froirl from his arms "Lord Scroope, tell us what you mean I say there shall be no disappointment Sit away from him, Kate, till he has told us what it is" Then they heard the sound of a horse's foot passing close to the , and they all knew that it was the priest "There is Father Marty," said Mrs O'Hara "He shall make you tell it"

"I have already told him" Lord Scroope as he said this rose and moved towards the door; but he himself was almost unconscious of the movement Some idea probably crossed his ht that he intended to escape from them

She rushed between him and the door and held him with both her hands "No; no; you do not leave us in that way, though you were twice an Earl"

"I a you"

"Mother, you shall not hurt hiirl "He does not mean to harm me He is my own, and no one shall touch him"

"Certainly I will not harm you Here is Father Marty Mrs O'Hara you had better be tranquil You should re yet of what I would say to you"

"Whose fault is that? Why do you not speak? Father Marty, what does he irl that there must be disappointment for her? Does he dare to tell me that he hesitates to make her his wife?"

The priest took the mother by the hand and placed her on the chair in which she usually sat Then, almost without a word, he led Kate from the room to her own chamber, and bade her wait a minute till he should co-room and at once addressed himself to Lord Scroope "Have you dared," he said, "to tell them what you hardly dared to tell to ," said Mrs O'Hara

"I do not wonder at it I do not think that any man could say to her that which he toldlord, with soirl had left the, I will now tell to you For your daughter I will do anything that you and she and heI cannot make her Countess of Scroope"