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"Without Bob Halanced uneasily toward hiloom

"Yes--I--I suppose I must"

Haers

treh his voice remained coldly deliberate

"I trust this is entirely satisfactory, Mrs Herndon," he said "I can

assure you I know absolutely nothing regarding her purpose of co to

ht I realize quite clearly e

myself hereafter not to interfere with you in any way You accept the

trust, I believe?"

She gave utterance to a deep sigh of resignation "It coed, doubtfully, "and I

suppose I must take up my cross; but--"

"But you have doubts," he interrupted "Well, I have none, for I have

greater faith in the girl, and--perhaps in God Good-night, Naida"

He bowed above the hand the girl gave him in the darkness, and ever

after she believed he bent lower, and pressed his lips upon it The

next ht had closed hihtened at she knew not what, on the threshold of her new life