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"The 'Traveller,'" said Rachel, her eyes widening like those of a child

"She is the 'Invalid'!"

"There, I alad to have made a clean breast of it," said Ermine

"The 'Invalid'!" repeated Rachel "It is as bad as the Victoria Cross"

"There is a compliment, Ermine, for which you should make your bow,"

said Colin

"Oh, I did not reat a

mistake as I made about Captain Keith, when I told hi the hero, till I actually saw his cross," and she

spoke with a genuine si

with, "I wonder why I am fated to make such ; "your theory suffices you,

and you don't see s in that," said Rachel, thoughtfully, "it

accounts for Grace always seeing things faster than I did"

"Did Mr--, your philanthropist, bring you this today?" said the

Colonel, taking up the paper again, as if to point a practical ments

"Mr Mauleverer? Yes; I ca first upon Fanny I aive ned by the 'Invalid,' it would be a

fortune to the institution"

Erue answer that she doubted whether the 'Invalid' was

separable from the 'Traveller,' and Rachel presently departed with her