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Scarcely knohat he did Anstice made some rejoinder; and then Cheniston, who had turned away for a iving hiot here then, after all? Well, Iris, shall we go and get cool after that energetic waltz?"

They drifted out into the hall; and watching theain that Cheniston had won the day

"Shall we sit out, Dr Anstice?" He thought Iris looked at hiely "II am rather tired--and hot--but still----"

"Let us sit out by all o into the conservatory? It is quite cool there--and quiet"

She agreed at once; and twoovershadowing palm

Now that she was beside hi hioith the pearls on her neck and the delicatein her little ears

"Dr Anstice"--it was the girl who broke the silence--"do you know you have treated us very badly of late? You have never been near us for weeks, and our tennis match has not been decided after all!"

"I know I've behaved disgracefully"--his voice shook, and she half regretted her ient, Miss Wayne"

"No, I suppose a doctor rarely is," she answered thoughtfully; and he did not correct her

"But I don't want you to think ht say "If I have appeared discourteous, please believe that in oodness--and that of your father"

She said nothing for adown at her satin slippers absently; and he did not atte irrelevance, she said slowly: "Dr Anstice, have you ever been in Egypt? I know you have travelled a lot, and I thought perhaps----"

"No" Suddenly at this apparently innocent question a foreboding of evil fell on Anstice's soul with a crushing weight "As you say, I have travelled a good deal; but soypt Why do you ask?"

"Because----" For yet another h uncertain whether or no to proceed And then, suddenly, she turned to face hi in her eyes which Anstice could not fathoypt some day"