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"Yes, but nothing I can say alters his conviction that the likeness was intended You knoas a likeness! And if Mr Siward had not told me that it was not intended, I should never have believed it to be an accident"

After a prolonged silence Sylvia said, overcarelessly: "I don't quite understand Howard With er lasts but a moment, and then I'er lasts"

"It does," said Grace "He was a 's memory under all his shallow, showy surface I'm frank with you; I never could take my cousin either respectfully or seriously, but I've known hier so seriously that years after he has visited it upon those who had really wronged him And he is equipped for retaliation if he chooses That fortune of his reaches far … Not that I think hi such a power to satisfy a mere personal dislike Howard has principles, loads of them But--the weapon is there"

"Is it true that Mr Siward is interested in building electric roads?" asked Sylvia curiously

"I don't know, child Why?"

"Nothing I wondered"

"Why?"

"Mr Mortimer said so"

"Then I suppose he is I'll ask Keht to build them?"

"I suppose so Howard is in it somehow In fact Howard's company is behind Mr Siward's, I believe"

Grace Ferrall turned and looked at the girl beside her, laughing outright

"Oh, Howard doesn't doafter his dog--or for any other reason That, dear, is one of those skilfully developed portions of an artistic plot; and plots exist only in romance So do villains; and besides, , no doubt Ke man is in very safe company"

"You draw such silly inferences," said Sylvia coolly; but there was a good deal of colour in her cheeks; and she knew it and pulled her bigit under her chin All of which anificance of the girl's hts Sylvia, too, had grown serious in her preoccupation; and the partie-à-deux terminated a few un-room

The weather had turned warreyed the blue in the sky, spreading a fine haze over land and water, effacing the crisp sparkle of the sea, dulling the westering sun