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I woke up with a start

At once I realized that I was in a very aard predicament For, about twelve feet away fro each other, and they were evidently quarrelling And, quite as evidently, they were unaware of my vicinity, for before I could move or speak John repeated the words which had aroused me from my dream

"I tell you, Mary, I won't have it"

Mary's voice caht to criticize e! Myabout with the fellow"

"Oh," she shrugged her shoulders, "if it is only village gossip that youabout He's a Polish Jew, anyway"

"A tinge of Jewish blood is not a bad thing It leavens the"--she looked at hilishman"

Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice I did not wonder that the blood rose to John's face in a crie

The pleading died out of his voice

"Aainst my express wishes?"

"If I choose"

"You defy ht to criticize my actions Have you no friends of whom I should disapprove?"

John fell back a pace The colour ebbed slowly from his face

"What do you mean?" he said, in an unsteady voice

"You see!" said Mary quietly "You do see, don't you, that you have no right to dictate to lanced at her pleadingly, a stricken look on his face

"No right? Have I no right, Mary?" he said unsteadily He stretched out his hands "Mary----"

For a ht she wavered A softer expression came over her face, then suddenly she turned al ahen John sprang after her, and caught her by the arm

"Mary"--his voice was very quiet now--"are you in love with this fellow Bauerstein?"

She hesitated, and suddenly there swept across her face a strange expression, old as the hills, yet with soyptian sphinx have smiled