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"See, then," said Herbert; "think of this! He comes here at the peril

of his life, for the realization of his fixed idea In the , you cut the ground froains worthless to hiht do, under the disappointment?"

"I have seen it, Herbert, and dreaht

of his arrival Nothing has been inhi taken"

"Then you reat

danger of his doing it That is his power over you as long as he reland, and that would be his reckless course if you forsook him"

I was so struck by the horror of this idea, which had weighed upon

out of which would ard

myself, in some sort, as his an pacing to and fro I said to Herbert, nized and taken, in spite of himself, I should

be wretched as the cause, however innocently Yes; even though I was so

wretched in having hih I would

far rather have worked at the forge all the days of my life than I would

ever have co off the question, What was to be done?