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"And I shall try to bring back Harry Beauchamp," added the Colonel "He

would be able to identify the fellow"

"I do not knoould be gained by that"

"I should knohom to watch"

Ermine had seen so much of Rose's nervous timidity, and had known so

many phantoms raised by it, that she attached little inition, and when she went over the ht of the effect of the terror, and of the long

suppressed secret, upon the child's moral and physical nature, than with

any curiosity as to the subject of her last alarm She was surprised to

observe that Alison was evidently in a state of much more restlessness

and suspense than she was conscious of in herself, during Colin's

absence, and attributed this to her sister's fear of Maddox'ssolitary hours, in which case she tried

to reassure her by promises to send at once for Mr Mitchell or for

Cooiven to her, and felt hypocritical for

receiving therave set features had tutored thee in the life that Erht was

entirely revealed to her Never had Ermine known that brotherly

companionship had once suddenly assuainst which Alison's heart had been steeled by devotion

to the sister whose life she had blighted Her resolution had been