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"I wish to ask you a few questions," Maitland said to Gwen as soon as the door had closed behind Osborne and his co so, however personal my inquiries may seem, they have but one object in view--the solution of this leness of purpose," she replied "Only too gladly will I give you any information in ood name freed from the obloquy which has been cast upon it, my existence will be but a blank,--yes, worse, it will be an unceasing torment; for I know my father's spirit--if the dead have power to return to this earth--can never rest with this weight of sharief she had hitherto so well concealed became visible for a moment, and her whole frame shook as the expression of her eained her old composure, and said calht I can upon this dark subject"

"Please, then, to answer my questions methodically, and do not permit yourself to reason why I have asked thee?"

"Sixty-two"

"Did he drink?"

"No"

"Did he play cards?"

"Yes"

"Poker?"

"Yes, and several other ga pleased hi, unless it were chess"

"Huood deal with father"

"What kind of a gaood ga that he could not do well"

"I mean to ask if his positions were steadily sustained--or if, on the other hand, his ht call brilliant"

"I think you would call them brilliant"

"Hum! How old are you?"

"Twenty-two"

"Tell me your relations with your father"

"We were most constant coether co wise enough to find it out, and having no desire to longer ereed to separate when I was only four They parted without the slightest ill-feeling, and I remained with father He was very fond of me, and would per and painting under his guidance At eight the violin was put into an In the lect ht ht I could walk four e that I be put to school, but my father would reply--many a time I have heard him say it--'a child's brain is like a flower that blossooes to seed in abstractions Correct concepts are the raw material of reason Every desk in your school is an intellectual loom which is expected to weave a sound fabric out of rotten rawtheir fibre in htfitted to perceive new truths for herself' It is needless to say his friends considered these views altogether too radical But for all that I was never sent to school My father's library was always at ht how to use it We were constantly together, and grew so into each other's lives that "--but her voice failed her, and her eyes h he apparently did not notice her e notes, quickly put a question which diverted her attention