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"We ," he said "Weto live, and to co off the ar for words out of the dreadful confusion

in his nificent thing

There is no greater thing, Natalie"

"That won't bring him back to us," she said, still in that frozen voice

And suddenly she burst into hard, terrible crying

All that night he sat outside her door, for she would not allow hiton on the telephone, but when at last he

got the connection it was to learn that no further details were known

Toward dawn there cara more

Natalie was hysterical He had sent for a doctor, and with Madeleine

in attendance theout,

toward , he had found Clayton in the hall and had looked at hio to bed, Mr Spencer," he advised "It ery over there"

And, as Clayton shook his head: "Mrs Spencer will coht She's hysterical, naturally

She'll be sending for you before long"

With the dawn, Clayton's thoughts cleared If he and Natalie were ever

to get together at all, it should be noith this corief between