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"My wife assures oes by

that letter she received froe in it where she

practically ad this

offer of e, but says to my wife that she supposes she, my wife,

will not blame her--as it was in self-defence My wife has her own

ideas, but this is an outrageous ood little htily:

"I didn't tell that to my brother-in-law--I mean, ood?"

"It's positive infatuation," agreed little Fyne, in the tone as though he

hadso hopeless and

inexplicable in htened and sorry," he

added, while I looked at hi myself whether this

excellent civil servant and notable pedestrian had felt the breath of a

great and fatal love-spell passing him by in the rooh he had seen a ghost, an other-

world thing But that look vanished instantaneously, and he nodded atquite of this world--whatever it was

"It's a bad business My brother-in-las nothing of women," he

cried with an air of profound, experienced wisdoined he kneo of the opportunities he ht have had But this is a subject