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He looked at her with absent eyes "No; I'll see to it Do start,

Martha, anddrew back, affronted "Oh, very well," She said; and made

her cold adieux

But Helena Richie was oblivious of Mrs King's coldness; her anxiety

and disrown into an uncontrollable nervousness, and when at

last, thinking she was alone, she threw up her ar, coravely towards her, made

her break into an angry exclamation But before she knew it, he had

taken her hand, and was holding it in his kind clasp

"Mrs Richie, I aive you bad news"

"Bad--news--?"

"A telegra the envelope fro it with a sort of gasp and tearing it

open Aat the despatch,

then with dilating eyes at the doctor, and again at the despatch She

pressed her fingers hard against her lips, and he saw that she was