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"We will try, by all means" In spite of himself, he was touched by the woe "And now I'll tell you exactly what I want you to do until I coive them full instructions how to look after the child, and when he had assured himself that they understood exactly as to be done, he took his leave, proain in the course of a few hours

As he drove away he mused for a moment on the Italian woman's peculiar manner towards him

"Seems as if she hated me to speak to hershe's never been like that before--indeed, when Cherry broke her arm she used to welcoain "Of course the woman was in pain to-day--she was a queer colour, too--looked downright ill I expect the affair has been a shock to her as well as to the child"

And with that conclusion he dishts reverting to the one subject which filled his ht Septe-rooround to hi, and he could not bear to go out into the village lest he reat event which was agitating peaceful Littlefield to-day

But his iination, unmercifully awakened from the stupor which had temporarily lulled it to repose, showed hiolden September afternoon

He saw the old grey church decked with flowers, saw the sunlight filtering through the faeous blue and cri lilies in the chancelhe heard the peals of the organ as the choristers broke out into the hymn which heralded the bridesaw the bride herself, a little pale, a little serious, in her white robes, in her eyes the grave and tender look whose possibility he had long ago divined

Oh, he was a fool to let his i to his feet, deter visions which only unfitted him for the stern and hopeless battle which was all that he could look forward to henceforth

As heout gaily, exultantly on the soft and balrey as he realized that this was the signal which betokened that Iris was now the wife of Bruce Cheniston, his to have and to hold, irrevocably his until death should intervene to end their dual existence