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"You are ainst the

countenance "She is as innocent, as high of soul, and as pure of heart

as--as Evelyn"

The Colonel clicked to the lid of his box "You will be so good as to

leave hter's name out of the conversation"

"As you please," Haward answered, with hauteur

Another silence, broken by the guest "Why did you hang that kit-kat of

yourself behind the door, Haward?" he asked amiably "'Tis too fine a

piece to be lost in shadoould advise a change with yonder

shepherdess"

"I do not knohy," said Haward restlessly "A whim Perhaps by nature I

court shadows and dark corners"

"That is not so," Byrd replied quietly He had turned in his chair, the

better to observe the distant portrait that was now lightened, now

darkened, as the flalancing froht it one of

Kneller's best The portrait of a gentleht fae aspect many

times?--only just now it seemed to me that it lost that distinction"-"Well?" said Haward, as he paused