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Willia reported the result of his call to Dr Lavendar, and

when he told the tragic story of the dead baby the old man blinked and

shook his head

"Do you wonder she doesn't call herself Mrs Frederick Richie?"

William demanded "I don't!"

"No; that's natural, that's natural," Dr Lavendar ad to say," said William, "but I just

burst out and said that if ever there was an excuse for divorce, she

had it!"

"What did she say?"

"Oh, of course, that she hadn't been divorced I was asha"

"Poor child," said Dr Lavendar, "living up there alone, and with such

uess she'd like to have little

David, if only for company But I think I'll keep hiet sort of acquainted with hiet acquainted with her But to think I

haven't known about that baby until now! It must be my fault that she

was not drawn to tell me But I'm afraid I wasn't drawn to her just at

first"

Yet Dr Lavendar was not altogether at fault This newcoer to everybody, except to Sa To be sure, as soon as she was settled in her