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Julia's harmonies in black sapphire were uncalled for If she really had been as kind as she was too often capable of looking, she would have fastened patches over both eyes--one patch would have been useless--and she would have worn flat shoes and patronized a dressh to enerosities: she should have been locked up till she passed sixty; her sufferings deserve no pity

And yet an attack of the ht Julia more sympathy than the epideht all of the nine old ladies ere under treatment there Julia was confined to her rooon seemed permanent before the house: and a confectioner's frequently stood beside the florist's Young Florence, an immune who had known the mumps in infancy, became an almost constant attendant upon the patient, with the result that the niece contracted an illness briefer than the aunt's, but nancy, caused by the poor child's econoainst waste Florence's convalescence took place in her own home without any inquiries whatever froreat part at the telephone Even a poem was repeated to her by the instrument:

How the world blooain,

Can hear

The words of men

And the dear

Own voice of you

This was Newland Sanders He was just out of college, a reviewer, a poet, and once, momentarily, an atheist It was Newland as present and said such a re when Julia had the accident to her thu-roo "To see you suffer," Newland said passionately as she nursed her injury:--"to see you in pain, that is the one thing in the universe which I feel beyond all my capacities Do you knohen you are made to suffer pain, then I feel that there is no God!"

This strong declaration struck Herbert as one of the h he could not account for its being said to any aunt of his Herbert had just dropped in without the for the bell, and had paused in the hall, outside the open door of the living-room He considered the matter, after Newland had spoken, and concluded to return to his own place of residence without disturbing anybody at his grandfather's At ho one of his uncles, one of his aunts, two of his great-uncles, one of his great-aunts, and one of his grown-up cousins, at cards: and he proved to be warranted in believing that they would all like to knohat he had heard Newland's statehout the fa in his original fervour, changed her ly repeated, over and over, by her fat old Uncle Joe