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into the park"

"Do you know Annersley, then, sir?"

Barnabas hesitated and, having gone over the question in his mind,

shook his head

"I know of it," he answered

"Do you know Sir George Annersley?"

Again Barnabas hesitated As a e as he knew of the "great house," as it was called thereabouts,

that is to say he had seen him once or twice--in the distance But it

would never do to admit as much to her, who now looked up at him

with eyes of witchery as she waited for him to speak Therefore

Barnabas shook his head, and answered airily enough: "We are not exactly acquainted, e; but to-day there was

money in his purse; London awaited hiic whereby the iht become realities; was not she

herself, as she stood before hi womanhood--was she not the very

e and waking?

Verily Therefore with this e Annersley at the next cross-roads or by-lane, and strike up

an enduring friendship on the spot--truly, for anything was possible

to-day Meanwhile -habit, and yet in the act of turning into the leafy path,

spoke: "Are you going far, sir?"