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"I o--yes" His set to call upon me if you want any help And for the sake of all concerned, but especially, if I may say so, for the sake of the poor lady at Cherry Orchard, I trust you may be able to clear the matter up for all the world to see"

"It is chiefly for Mrs Carstairs' sake that I intend to do so," returned Anstice briefly "Personally I don't care what may be said about me; but I don't mean Mrs Carstairs to be victiot in the world the writer of these letters shall be brought to book!"

And Fraser Carey agreed, mentally, with Sir Richard's estimation of Mrs Carstairs' new champion But he went further than Sir Richard, in that he found occasion to wonder whether after all this unexpected and unwelcon which had convulsed Littlefield ainst whom it was presumably directed

Unlike Sir Richard, Carey was an observer of men, a student of human nature, and he had not failed to notice the increased alertness which had characterized Anstice this evening as he discussed the situation The rather bitter, indifferent look which generally clouded his face had lifted, giving way to a brighter, more open expression; and the half melancholy cyniciser deterhted in the eyes of the world

"Theover what he considers to be an injustice of God that he has lost, temporarily, his sense of proportion," said Carey to hied, rather wearily, homeward "But if he devotes himself, as he seems anxious to do, to the service of a woh at the hands of ot his own bitterness in the contemplation of her marred life And God, who is the God of Justice, whatever scoffers ood tiedies may react on one another; for the lives of all of us are bound together by mysterious and undreamed-of links; and in the effort to free the soul of a woe his own soul may well find its freedom"

But Fraser Carey was a mystic; and since the materialistic world looks with suspicion on mysticism, it is probable that even Anstice, who knew and respected hi wonder that a man should hold so unpractical and untenable a view of existence as the words would seem to imply