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Then Alderdene cales, sloppy, baggy, heavy shoes wheezing, lingered in the vicinity long enough to s his "peg" and acquire a disdainful opinion of his shooting fro the rooh, which resefisher

In ones and twos the guests reported as the dusk-curtained fog closed in on Shotover Quarrier came, dry as a chip under his rain-coat, but his silky beard ith rain, and , soft eyelashes and white skin; and his flexible, pointed fingers, as he drew off his gloves, seeloo walk is out of the question," he said, standing by Sylvia, who had nodded a greeting and then turned her head rather hastily to see who had entered the rooloonisable to her At the sae rose leisurely and strolled toward the billiard-roo, you know" Yet only a day or two ago she had walked to church with Siward through the rain, the irritated Major feeling obliged to go with theainst the door of the lighted billiard-room, then brilliantly illuminated, as he entered, nodded acceptance to Mortiatha Caithness, who had turned to speak to Marion Then Mortiay and animated in the billiard-rooatha Caithness in gay challenge; Mortih broke out; there came the rattle of pool-balls, and the dull sound of cue-butts striking the floor; then, crack! and the ga Morti or other

Quarrier had been speaking for so about a brisk walk in theMarion's supple waist-line as she bent far over the illuminated table for a complicated shot at the enereeable to Quarrier A dozen things had happened since his arrival which had not been agreeable to hi, and the reason for her failure; and her informal acquaintance with Siward, whose presence at Shotover he had not looked for, and her sudden intimacy with the man he had never particularly liked, and ithin six months he had come to detest and to avoid