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and, glancing up, saw Cleone running towards the to his feet

"You--struck him!" she panted

"I--yes, I--had to! But indeed he isn't much hurt--" But Cleone was

down upon her knees, had lifted Barry the blood from his pale face with her handkerchief

"Cleone," said Barnabas, humbly, "I--indeed I--couldn't help it Oh,

Cleone--look up!" Yet, while he spoke, there ca thither, he saw Mr Chichester surveying

the forward, Barnabas

confronted hiue!" said he, his lips curling, "Rascal!"

"Ah!" nodded Mr Chichester gently, "you have a pistol there, I see!"

"Your despicable villainy is known!" said Barnabas "Ha!--smile if

you will, but while you knelt, pistol in hand, in the barn there,

had you troubled to look in the loft above your head you ht have

murdered me, and none the wiser As it is, I ae, and you still owe uineas Pah!

keep them to help you from the country, for I swear you shall be

hounded from every club in London; o, before you tele you for a nauseous beast

Go, I say!"

S from his narrowed eyes,

Mr Chichester slowly viewed Barnabas fro his tasselled walking cane as he went, with

Barnabas close behind him, pistol in hand, even as they had once

walked months before