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"And hence you requested this pleasant conference," broke in Hampton,

coolly, "to inform me, from your calm eminence of respectability, that

I was no fit co and innocent person, and to

warn me that you were prepared to act as her protector"

Brant slightly inclined his head

"Iof that nature in my mind"

"Well, Lieutenant Brant," and the older ht be ih to say that it was the

conception of a cad, but whatever it was, the tables have unexpectedly

turned Without further reference tolady, which are, however, considerable, there rehty reasons, that I am not at liberty to discuss, which make it

simply impossible for you to sustain any relationship to Miss Gillis

other than that of ordinary social friendship"

"You--you claiht, for the reason that I possess the right,

and no one has ever yet known ained Lieutenant Brant, if I a man by nature as well as profession, but there is no

opportunity for your doing any fighting here This matter is

irrevocably settled--Naida Gillis is not for you"