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With flashing eyes and a voice that smote him like a whip, she cried out, "Leave ainst the wall, and she passed on and up the stairway, leaving hi there in dismay, his jaw lax

The mother hastily followed, and as the door closed behind theraceful! I hope you enjoy being treated like that! How can you endure it? How can you ask me to endure it? If Anthony Clarke possessed one shred of real manhood--But he hasn't He's so selfishly bent on his own plans he's willing to letI'm done with him, mother You needn't try to find excuse for hi Herash, child"

"Will you submit to more insult? You can stay on till you are ordered out of the house if you like, but I will not!"

"But you know they advise it"

The girl turned, a new tone in her voice "There, now,that If they insist on our staying here I will be sure they are the voices of devils and not those they claim to be I don't believe my father would ask me to stay in a house where the very servants sniff at us I don't believe he would let Anthony make use of me in this way Professor Serviss calls our faith a delusion, and to-night I alht I have lost the spirit of theseehter with horror "Child, some earth-bound spirit has surely taken possession of you"

"I hope it will stay till to-et out of this house," she replied, and went to her own roo her mother hurt and dismayed

A few -rooive to Viola"

As she opened to hier, all his resolution gone "She was unjust to me," he said, humbly; "take her this" He extended a folded leaf of paper in a hand that partook of the pallor of his face

"You poor boy," she exclai, "you irlish pet"

"Mother," he cried, passionately, "to lose her noould kill me She is my hope, ht Did she mean it? She can't mean it!"