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"My husband's godson--we uilty of the infamous conduct ascribed to this Chilton by

Winston Aylett's anonye

of character, and I maintain that it is a moral impossibility for my

instincts and experience to be so utterly at fault as these two men

would make you believe As to the corroboration of your

'impression,' that would be consummate nonsense in the eye of the

law Let us sift the pros and cons of this affair as rational,

unprejudiced beings should--not jump at conclusions And I must say,

Mabel"--was the consistent peroration of this address, uttered in a

an to shine through a

rising fog--"it seeular--really wounds me--is not

what I looked for in you--that you should rank yourself with my poor

boy's enemies!"

"I, his ene of

unfathoe of which the listener

drew back with a shudder "I would have lance at the past! Let him but say 'it is untrue--all that you

fear and they declare,' and I would disbelieve this tale, instantly

and utterly, though a thousand witnesses swore to the truth of it