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Leaving the library they went into the hall, and fro, half-furnished roo-cases,from them Ornaments were huddled on

tables, mirrors and pictures leaned their faces to the walls; everywhere

was disorder

"The negroes are careless, and to-day I held their hands," said Haward "I

ear"

Up stairs and down they went through the house, that seee and

very still, and finally they careat front door, and down

the stone steps on to the terrace Below the in the sunshine,

lay the river, the opposite shore all in a haze of light "I o

home," Audrey shyly reminded hih the box alley to the gate in the wall, but down the terrace,

and out upon the hot brown boards of the landing Haward, stepping into a

boat, handed her to a seat in the stern, and hi, they ca beneath the red brick ith the honeysuckle atop On

the opposite grassy shore, seated in a blaze of noon sunshine, was Hugon

They in the boat took no notice Haward, rowing, spoke evenly on, his

theay and lonely life he had led these eleven years;

and Audrey, though at first sight of the waiting figure she had paled and

treive to trouble any part of this