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In the days that followed I saw much of the Chevalier de Saint-Eustache He was a very constant visitor at Lavedan, and the reason of it was not far to seek For my own part, I disliked him--I had done so from the moment when first I had set eyes on him--and since hatred, like affection, is often a matter of reciprocity, the Chevalier was not slow to return es, grew more distant, until by the end of a week it had become so hostile that Lavedan found occasion to comment upon it

"Beware of Saint-Eustache," he warnedvery e you to have a care I don't trust him His attachives me uneasiness, for he may do much harm if he is so inclined It is on this account that I tolerate his presence at Lavedan Frankly, I fear him, and I would counsel you to do no less The man is a liar, even if but a boastful liar and liars are never long out of mischief"

The wisdom of the words was unquestionable, but the advice in them was not easily followed, particularly by one whose position was so peculiar as my own In a way I had little cause to fear the harht do me, but I was iht do the Vico enether The reason for this was, of course, that wherever Roxalanne was to be found there, generally, e both to be found also Yet had I advantages that one to swell a rancour based as much upon jealousy as any other sentiment, for whilst he was but a daily visitor at Lavedan, I was established there indefinitely

Of the use that I made of that time I find it difficult to speak From the first moment that I had beheld Roxalanne I had realized the truth of Chatellerault's assertion that I had never knooed the sex had, by contrast with this child, little claim to the title Virtue I had accounted a shadoithout substance; innocence, a synonynorance; love, a fable, a fairy tale for the delectation of overgrown children

In the company of Roxalanne de Lavedan all those old, cynical beliefs, built up upon a youth of undesirable experiences, were shattered and the error of the a convert to the faith which so long I had sneered at, and as lovesick as any unfledged youth in his first amour