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As a rule the psychologicalattracts little notice Quite ive rise to demonstrations of excitement, of joy, of loudly voiced approbation or disappointment But the moments which really matter in a life, which mark an epoch or destroy a dream, pass as a rule so quietly that only those whose drealory of the immortal, know that for a brief instant Tieable with Eternity; that in the space of sixty fleeting seconds whole cycles of life have been lived through, and a vast and yawning gulf, in thought, in feeling, in spiritual growth or mental outlook, has opened to divide this moment from the one which directly preceded it

Such a ether by so tragic a link ca-room

Each had been quite sincere in his dread of any future ; but whereas Bruce Cheniston had been the victim of as cruel a circumstance as ever deprived lover of his beloved, Anstice was the ret h his preht to execrate his na as they both should live

For a second Anstice wondered, growing cold whether Cheniston would refuse to shake hands with him In his heart he knew quite well, had always known, that he had not been to bla which ic uselessness, as a man in whom a woman had trusted he had had no alternative but to act as he had acted

Yet of all ht well question the necessity of his action; and Anstice told hiht to resentment should the other refuse to take his hand, to sit at meat with the racious inheritance of life in the world she had called so beautiful

For a second, indeed, Cheniston hi he had been about to bestow on his sister's visitor He had arrived late that evening, and had been disuests were expected to dinner, but he had had no idea of the last arrival's identity; and to hinancy that last bitter interview in the haunted East