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"I suppose," said Mr Bellingham, "I can't be of any service to you in the matter of identification?"

"Indeed you can," said Thorndyke, "and I was going to ask you to assist me What I want you to do is this: Write down a full description of your brother, including every detail known to you, together with an account of every illness or injury from which you know him to have suffered; and also the naeons, or dentists who may have attended him at any time The dentists are particularly important, as their infor to these bones should be discovered"

Mr Bellingha idea," he said; "but, of course, you are quite right You must have the facts if you are to form an opinion I rite out what you want and send it to you without delay And now, for God's sake, let us throw off this night Doctor Barnard's eneral inclined to the severely classical, but we disinterred frohter works of an old-fashioned kind, including a volume of Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte, and with one of these Miss Bellingha it with excellent taste and quite adequate execution That, at least, was her father's verdict; for, as to me, I found it the perfection of happiness merely to sit and look at her--a state of mind that would have been in no wise disturbed even by Silvery Waves or The Maiden's Prayer

Thus with simple, homely music, and conversation always cheerful and sos of my life, and slipped away all too soon St Dunstan's clock was the fly in the ointment, for it boouests were beginning thoroughly to appreciate one another; and thereby carried the sun (with a minor paternal satellite) out of the firiven strict injunctions that Mr Bellingham should on no account sit up late; and now, in ly to hear "the doctor's orders" quoted It was a scurvy return for all haone too; but notingwithal compassionate and tender of heart, they were persuaded to stay awhile and bear me company in a consolatory pipe