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"I alad"

"You are a noble lady," he answered "Once, long ago, I styled myself your

friend, your equal Now I know better my place and yours, and as from a

princess I take your alms For your letter--that letter, Evelyn, which

told ht, which showed me what to do--I humbly thank you"

She let fall her hand fro eyes

the e before them, where Selima knelt to

Tamerlane, and Moneses lad;" and then, when they had kept silence for a while, "You will live

at Fair View?"

"Ay," he replied "I will inia"

"You must let me help you," she said "So old a friend as I ht To-morrow I may visit her, may I not? Noe must look at the

players When she enters there is no need to cry for silence It co eyes Who is that reat peruke and the

scar!"

Haward, bending, looked over the rail, then drew back with a son Soely at us," said Evelyn, "with how haggard a face! My

scarf, Mr Lee? Thank you Madae?"

The conversation beca its end,