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In this uished face, he sent a telegra hihter

He did not appreciate the full force of this act until he left the office and resumed his walk homeward Then, like a shock from a battery, came the realisation "I have now definitely intervened; but hoeakly, how ingloriously!"

This thought grew less agreeable andas he dwelt upon the possible consequences "Will La to heart?"

In iination he followed the ser and started up that fearsome, splendid trail towards the mill The world was stern and cold and white and still up there in the Basin--winter yet reigned in majesty and the pathere deep sunk in heaped and sculptured snows

Up to the half-buried office the courier would ride, and with a cheery halloo call La such an ier? "Did I ine that some dire physical disaster has overtaken his women But that would be true Their peril is none the less real because intangible, and yet my part in it may not seem either wise or manly"

In truth every step towards his own door reue froonized voice died out of his ears the crisis in her life grew hysteric, unsubstantial, and at last unreal Her gestures, her plea for help, her descent of the stairway, caular drama powerfully acted "God! what an actress--if she is an actress!" he exclaiic intensity of her face returned upon him

He passed froood-humored way he had accepted his friend Tolman's theories of hypnotic control, but had never taken them into serious account till this estion" or to charge this girl, whose character so bewitched hi an impostor She was either a h some sinister and little-understood law of thelike a somnambulist down the stairway to denty? And if he could call her to him in such wise, then all the weird tales of the ros of Mesmer and Charcot, were true, and the feet of Bulwer Lytton's remorseless lover solidly set upon the rock of fact