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Katherine stood with her child in her ar to the ever faint

and fainter beat of Mephisto's hoofs Her husband had gone back to duty,

his furlough had expired, and their long, and leisurely honeymoon was

over But she was neither fearful nor unhappy Hyde's friends had

procured his exchange into a court regi to

London, and he was still her lover She looked forith clear eyes

as she said gratefully over to herself, "So happy aood is my

husband! So dear is h to ht seem neither fair nor sweet,

Katherine really liked it Perhaps she had some inherited taste for low

lands, with their shientle beauty of the landscape specially fitted her temperament But, at

any rate, the wide brown stretches, dotted with lonely windmills and low

fared with yellow

and purple flags; and the great ditches, white ater-lilies; and

the high belts of natural turf; and the summer sunshine, which over this

level land had a white brilliancy to which other sunshine seemed shadow

Hyde had never before found the country endurable, except during the

season when the marshes were full of birds; or when, at the Christlass, and the wind

blowing fair from behind Then he had liked well a race with the famous