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Nell nodded She quite understood his dislike of the part of interesting

invalid

"And there's really nothing thebut this arm, which doesn't exactly lame me Won't

you sit down?"

Nell hesitated a moment, then took a chair at the other side of the

"You've a splendid view here," he re steadily out of the

, for he felt rather than saw that the girl was a little shy--not

shy, but, rather, that she scarcely knehat to say

"Oh, yes," she assented, in a voice in which there was certainly no

shyness "There is a good view froh

Won't you have your beef tea?"

"Certainly I'd forgotten it Don't get up I'll----"

But Nell had got up before he could rise As she brought the tray to hi at the bedroom wall paper for

some days, and perhaps the contrast offered by Nell's fresh, young

lovelinessThere was

soray eyes,