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"Wait," she panted; "I aht you

understood that"

He dreay froesture "And you would keep an

innocent child--"

"No! No! I've broken with him--on account of David!"

"Broken with hiht her by the wrist, and

stared at her Then with a breathless word that she could not hear, he

dropped her hand and turned his face away

Again, in their preoccupation, they stood still; this tiraveyard half-way up the hill

"So you won't take him from me?" she said; "I will leave Old Chester

You need never see , "do you think that is what I want?"

She tried to see his face, but he had turned his back on her so that

she stood behind hi and her

voice fluttering in her throat "You won't take him?"

"Mrs Richie," he said harshly, "do you love that man still?"