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Dr Lavendar was not sleeping very well that spring He fell into the

habit of waking at about three, just when the birds begin the

scattered twittering that swells into full claray stillness, broken by bird-calls,

he used to occupy hie upper chari to

the cries and calls in the jargonelle pear-tree in the corner of the

garden, and watching the ghostly oblong of thethat faced the

east, glience of day It was then,

with his old hands folded on his breast, that he thought about the

Wrights--all three of them

It was a relief to know that Mrs Richie would influence Sam to put

his mind on his work; if the boy would do that, his father would be

less irritated with him And Williaht to end his grandfather's worry But while

that worry lasted itout of the shadows Dr Lavendar could see the

outline of thedistinctly The bureau loorayness

like a rock; opposite the bed, under a high wooden mantel was the

cavernous blackness of the chimney, Dr Lavendar reflected that it

must be nearly four

The question hen should he use this weapon of Benjaht's

worry, on the two hard hearts? He had made several attempts to use it,

only to feel the blade turn in his hand: He had asked Mr Wright when

he was going to talk things over with Samuel, and the old ed his mind He had mentioned to

his senior warden that Benjarandson's