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Major Carstairs looked up at his wife as she stood before hientle as he answered her

"But, Chloe, what of Tochatti herself? She o unpunished Besides, there is another aspect of the case You know these abominable letters have been scattered broadcast in the land, and it is only fair to Dr Anstice that their authorship should be published and their lies refuted"

"Yes I had forgotten that" She turned to Anstice, who had risen and was standing leaning against the ive otten that you were the victie of Tochatti's----"

"Mrs Carstairs--please!" In his haste to explain hi to let this matter drop--why, so a nobly, you are enerous, chivalrousyour entire innocence before all the world, but if you are really resolved on it, do let me make you understand that personally I a slide into the oblivion it deserves!"

"My dear fellow"--Major Carstairs spoke warmly--"this is all very well, very Quixotic, very--well, what you call noble, chivalrous--but what about the moral side of the affair? Justice should be tempered with ether of her dues The woainst society, against you, against o unpunished is to put a premium on wickedness; and leave both you and ma"

For a moment Anstice hesitated; and before he could frame a reply Chloe spoke very quietly, yet with a decision there was no ood deal more plainly, I think, than you see mine Of course as a man you want your wife's na the affair public, why then"--said Chloe with a little sood wife should But"--she was serious now--"if you kne I dread the publicity of it all--the reports in the papers, the gossip, the talk--oh, it ine h to find satisfaction in the idea of Tochatti's punishment--well, I think you must have a quite mistaken notion of me after all!"