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"And paid the fine out of et that!" Sir Richard chuckled "Well, Dr Anstice, if you're not in a hurry, walk round with us, will you? You aren't busy on a Sunday afternoon, I suppose?"

"Well, not very" In spite of hie reluctance to part fro for a walk, as you see, and if I may come with you----"

So it fell out that for the first Sunday since he had arrived in Littlefield Anstice's as no solitary stroll, cohts, but a pleasant interlude in a life which in spite of incessant and often engrossing work, was on the whole a joyless one

This afternoon Iris Wayne looked little htly coloured jersey, a cap pulled well down over her curls, which nevertheless rioted over her forehead in entrancing confusion It was very evident that she and her father were on the best of terms; and if, as seehter, it was no less certain that she, on her side, thought her father the most wonderful of olf links, and Sir Richard told hiathered froe, or from the chatter of the countryside, impressions which had labelled him as a morose, sullen kind of fellow, had certainly been fallacious

Reserved he h hismorose about him to-day; and if his conversation was not particularly brilliant Sir Richard thought none the worse of him for that

So pleased, indeed, was he with his new acquaintance that when they reached the Club House on the return journey he pressed the young man to accompany them home for a cup of tea

"I' on a Sunday afternoon at any rate," he said genially, "and you haven't anyone waiting for you at home, have you?"

With a rather melancholy s for him at home; and since Iris seconded her father's invitation with a kind little entreaty on her own account, he accepted their joint hospitality without further deates, the honified, though perhaps less charnity gave charround for this youngest and prettiest of its daughters For all her youth and high spirits, Iris seemed to fit into the place as one born to it; and when she tossed aside her cap and sat down behind the ainst the oak panelling of the walls as the wild daffodils gleaainst the row