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But as he passed he caught a sentence spoken suddenly by

Wetheritated voice and

words re

"Hush!" fro But he

turned and saw that Wether he was saying in a foolish burst of

confidence

"You have guessed it, Helene--you alone" He had land--and the second

tie su creditors He had hoped to pay the sum

back from a new invention

"But Helene, I tell you," he said, "I have a conscience" And when

she smiled he explained "Oh, not what the priests would call a

conscience; that I know But none the less I have a conscience--a

conscience about the things which really matter, at all events to

me There is a flaw in that new invention It can be improved; I

know that But as yet I do not see how, and--I cannot help it--I

o imperfect when I know that

it's imperfect, when I know that it can be improved, when I am

sure that I shall sooner or later hit upon the needed improvement

That is what I mean when I say I have a conscience"

Helena Vauquier ss

which were really of no account troubled and perplexed thehts But it was not for her to object,