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Mrs Dill, Noble's ainst Julia, nevertheless she acknowledged that in one solitary way Noble was being improved by the experience His two previous attacks of love (one at twelve, and the other at eighteen) had been incoes in hieneral irritability and a lack of domestic punctuality due to too much punctuality elsewhere But, when his Julia Atwater trouble cae new effort to become beautiful; his mother even discovered that he soarette stains on his fingers

Thetiranted that his family did not knoas theelse could thebad cooks and the dangerously insane, the personslovers But the world has had to acco lovers cannot possibly acco lover there is no general life of the species; for hile bonnet He has but an irritated perception of every vital thing in nature except the vital thing under this bonnet; all else is trivial intrusion But whatever does concern the centrifugal bonnet, whatever concerns it in the reh a Sunday dinner at hoed to a torpor, while the family talk went on about him; but when his father, in the course of some remarks upon politics, happened to mention the name of the county-treasurer, Charles J Patterson, Noble's startled attention to the conversation was so conspicuous as to be disconcerting Mrs Dill signalled with her head that comment should be omitted, and Mr Dill became, for the moment, one factor in a fairly clear example of telepathic communication, for it is iesture hat caused him to remember that Charles J Patterson was Julia Atwater's uncle

That na thus upon Noble's ear, was like an unexpected shrine on the wayside where plods the fanatic pilgrim; and yet Mr Patterson was the e: he neither had nor desired any effect upon her destiny To Noble he see of the saateposts in front of Julia's house; invested everything that had to do with her What he felt about her father, that august old danger, himself, was not only the uncalled-for affection inevitable toward Julia's next of kin, but also a kind of horror due to the irresponsible and awful power possessed by a sacred girl's parent Florence's offer of protection had not entirely reassured the young lover, and, in sum, Noble loved Mr Atwater, but often, in his reveries, when he had rescued hi burned to death, he preferred to picture the peculiar old man's injuries as ultimately fatal