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Cable saw Bansemer leave the house as he drove up to the curb in front The lawyer did not look back, but turned the nearest corner as if eager to disappear fro the door of his s-room behind hi his hat or coat His blood was running cold through his veins, his jaas set and his eyes had the appearance of one who has been dazed by a blow For many rate From tis began growing black and green before his eyes; he started up with an oath

He was consumed by the fires of jealousy and suspicion The doubt that had found lodging in his rie of the man who finds hi with his own eyes, no doubt, just what others had seen for months--had seen and had pitied or scorned hiht of it he actually ground his teeth; tears of rage and s in instances where shame had fallen upon other men; he recalled his own easy indifference and the teht of the poor devils It had never entered his ht be the object of like consideration in othersto THEIR friends

By the ti himself to a state of comparative calmness He did not dress for dinner, as was his custoo down He heard Jane playing the piano as he descended She nodded to him, but did not stop and he paused near the fireplace to look at her strangely So, unknown to hiht that this child bore hi down the fear that evil or slander or painif he could face his ithout betraying himself

Jane played softly, lifelessly She, on the other hand, ondering what Graydon would think or say, if she spoke to him of what she had seen She wondered if he would bla to blame his father