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The tone was very cold, but Audrey scarce noticed that it was so "If I

ly "I will be

very careful"

Leaving the , she came and knelt beside Evelyn; but when she would

have put the golden hood upon her head, the other drew back with a gesture

of aversion, a quick recoil of her entire frame The hood slipped to the

floor After a moment Audrey rose and stepped back a pace or two Neither

spoke, but it was the one who thought no evil whose eyes first sought the

floor Her dark cheek paled, and her lips tre

back to her seat by thetook up her fallen work Evelyn, with a

sharp catch of her breath, withdrew her attention from the other occupant

of the roo like a bar between

the two

Mistress Stagg returned The hood was fitted, and its purchaser prepared

to leave Audrey rose andmotion of her hand Was not this the lady whom he loved, that

people said he was to wed? And had he not told her, long ago, that he

would speak of her to Mistress Evelyn Byrd, and that she too would be her

friend? Last May Day, when the guinea was put into her hand, the lady's