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for Juba a distaste for the town and its people caht take the barge and be rowed up the river to

the Jaquelins' or to Green Spring; but in a nant Finally he went out upon the terrace, and sat there theat the river That afternoon he sent a negro to the

store with athe demand for his coh,--careat

house, and found the

beneath an oak, with a small table and a bottle of wine beside him

"Ha, Mr MacLean!" he cried, as the other approached "Sohosts! I had meant to sooner improve our

acquaintance But my house has been in disorder, and I myself,"--he passed

his hand across his face as if to wipe away the expression into which it

had been set,--"I myself have been poor company There is a witchery in

the air of this place I am becouest to an ean to pour

wine for them both His hand was not quite steady, and there was about him

a restlessness of aspect ht hihts